Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary:
expressing or sharing emotion in a way that is exaggerated or embarrassing
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Dictionary.com: Mawkish
characterized by sickly sentimentality
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Usage Examples
- mawkish sentimentality/heart/film.
- Director jerks too hard on the heartstrings in mawkish drama of contagious kindness
A very mawkish painting of a dog. It show owner's sentimental attachment towards the dog.
Whenever you come across this word think of Mickey mouse in mawkish mood-
and try to think of why is he getting sentimental.
2 comments:
Thanks for sharing the link, but unfortunately it seems to be down... Does anybody have a mirror or another source? Please reply to my post if you do!
I would appreciate if a staff member here at visualvocabulary.blogspot.com could post it.
Thanks,
Alex
Brilliant site, I hadn't come across visualvocabulary.blogspot.com earlier in my searches!
Carry on the wonderful work!
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