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  • EdwardyHucheundefined Offline
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    effusively or insincerely emotional

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    • Jessicaundefined Offline
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      Feeling sick, queasy.

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        Sickening or insipid in taste or smell.

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          Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment.

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            Apt to give satiety; apt to cause loathing.

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              Mawkish refers to being overly sentimental, emotional, or sappy in a way that is often perceived as insincere, exaggerated, and even slightly nauseating. It can also refer to having a sickly, unpleasant, or slightly nauseating taste or smell.

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                easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious

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                  mawk′ish, adj. loathsome, disgusting, as anything beginning to breed mawks or maggots.—n. Mawk, a maggot.—adv. Mawk′ishly.—n. Mawk′ishness. [Explained by Skeat as formed, with suffix -ish, from M. E. mawk, mauk, a contr. form of M. E. maðek, a maggot—Ice. maðkr, a maggot.]

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                    Weakly sentimental; maudlin.

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