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Meaning of mawkish

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  mawkish
      adj 1: effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel";
             "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness";
             "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy
             poetry" [syn: {bathetic}, {drippy}, {hokey}, {maudlin},
             {mawkish}, {kitschy}, {mushy}, {schmaltzy}, {schmalzy},
             {sentimental}, {soppy}, {soupy}, {slushy}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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