mawkish
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effusively or insincerely emotional
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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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