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Mawkish is an English word with synonyms like bathetic or slushy. Below you'll find 6 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Mawkish in a sentence

Mawkish meaning

  1. Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment.
  2. Feeling sick, queasy.
  3. Sickening or insipid in taste or smell.

Synonyms of Mawkish

bathetic slushy soupy soppy sentimental schmalzy schmaltzy mushy maudlin hokey drippy emotional

Related words

Other words often associated with Mawkish or its synonyms:

wet leaky stilted sodden emotive saturated cerebral tender thick contrived soaking affective

Using Mawkish

  • The main meaning on this page is: Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment. | Feeling sick, queasy. | Sickening or insipid in taste or smell.
  • Useful related words include: bathetic, slushy, soupy, soppy.

Context around Mawkish

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 21.7 words
  • Position in the sentence: 0 start, 5 middle, 1 end
  • Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

too 1× bit 1× seem 1× occasionally 1×

Often after:

sentiment 1× platitudes 1×

Sentence patterns with Mawkish

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

a bit mawkish and because 1× an occasionally mawkish or nostalgic 1× be too mawkish about it 1× hypocrisies and mawkish platitudes 1× reputation for mawkish sentiment the 1× would seem mawkish if they 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

apart from being 1× but politicians do 1× despite his reputation 1× he tells melodramatic 1× i don t 1× the personages of 1×

Common sentence endings:

and mawkish platitudes 1× expected overdetermined way 1× it was healing 1× pain and regret 1× so brilliantly observed 1× was no naif 1×

Words around Mawkish

Just before it in the word index:

mawji 2 mawile 3 mawien 2 mawi 3 mawhood 2 mawhinney 7

Just after it in the word index:

mawkyrwat 3 mawla 2 mawlamyine 2 mawlana 3 mawlavi 2 mawlawi 2

Similar in corpus frequency:

aab 13 aamer 13 aave 13 abdelmadjid 13 abdulkarim 13 abdulsalami 13

Corpus analysis for Mawkish

  • In this selection, "mawkish" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, too, bit, seem, sentiment and platitudes stand out and add context to how "mawkish" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a bit mawkish and because and an occasionally mawkish or nostalgic. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "mawkish" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with mawkish

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Despite his reputation for mawkish sentiment, the real Capra was no naif. (12 words)

I don’t want to be too mawkish about it, but it was healing. (14 words)

He tells melodramatic family stories which would seem mawkish if they weren’t so brilliantly observed. (16 words)

Longer example sentences

The personages of Pierrot and Columbine are transported into modern-day settings and inserted into an occasionally mawkish or nostalgic love plot with equal doses of laughter mingled with pain and regret. (32 words)

But politicians do it because most Americans like their politicians to be a bit mawkish, and because part of the job is reaching out to everyone in this expected, overdetermined way. (31 words)

Apart from being an annoying delay before a decent game of footy, anthems are crass and bloated expressions of jingoism, glaring hypocrisies and mawkish platitudes. (25 words)

Example sentences (6)

Despite his reputation for mawkish sentiment, the real Capra was no naif.

I don’t want to be too mawkish about it, but it was healing.

Apart from being an annoying delay before a decent game of footy, anthems are crass and bloated expressions of jingoism, glaring hypocrisies and mawkish platitudes.

But politicians do it because most Americans like their politicians to be a bit mawkish, and because part of the job is reaching out to everyone in this expected, overdetermined way.

He tells melodramatic family stories which would seem mawkish if they weren’t so brilliantly observed.

The personages of Pierrot and Columbine are transported into modern-day settings and inserted into an occasionally mawkish or nostalgic love plot with equal doses of laughter mingled with pain and regret.

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "mawkish" in a sentence?
An example: "Despite his reputation for mawkish sentiment, the real Capra was no naif." This page contains 6 example sentences with the word "mawkish" from authentic English texts.
What does "mawkish" mean?
Mawkish means: Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment.
What are synonyms of "mawkish"?
Common synonyms of "mawkish" include: bathetic, slushy, soupy, soppy, sentimental, schmalzy, schmaltzy, mushy. Plus 4 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "mawkish" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 6 example sentences with "mawkish", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.