Definitions for mawkish

mawkish mawk·ish

Spelling: [maw-kish]
IPA: /ˈmɔ kɪʃ/

Mawkish is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 150 anagrams from letters in mawkish (ahikmsw).

Definitions for mawkish

adjective

  1. characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin.
  2. having a mildly sickening flavor; slightly nauseating.

Origin of mawkish

1660-70; obsolete mawk maggot (late Middle English Old Norse mathkr maggot) + -ish1. See maggot

Examples for mawkish

It's all splendid and barbaric; no mawkish sentiment about it.

The jibe is off-key too because Wilde himself was hardly immune to the sentimental and even the mawkish.

They are a weakening of moral fiber, a waste of mawkish sentimentality.

For mawkish, sentimental religion the Count had an honest contempt.

This is no time for trifling, nor for mawkish sentimentality.

What a fool, what a weak, mawkish, insipid fool he had made of himself!

Often there is to the style a mawkish Sunday-school juvenile flavor.

I hate 'em when they make parting scenes: it's too mawkish!'

There was no mawkish sentiment—no melancholy in his make-up.

Yes, my heart swells, but not with the mawkish fondness of a feeble mother.

Word Value for mawkish
Scrable

19

Words with friends

19

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