Mawkish

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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:

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Alex

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