See mawkish in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"word": "precious"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:mawkish",
"tags": [
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"word": "saccharine"
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"word": "cloying"
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"word": "carried away"
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"text": "Some of Mr. Williams’s performances were criticized for a mawkish sentimentality, like “Patch Adams,” a 1998 film that once again cast him as a good-hearted doctor, and “Bicentennial Man,” a 1999 science-fiction feature in which he played an android.",
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"ref": "2019 May 12, Adrian Searle, “Mawkish monuments and the beach from hell: our verdict on the Venice Biennale”, in The Guardian:",
"text": "I found [Christoph] Buchel’s appropriation of the boat in which so many migrants lost their lives a vile and mawkish spectacle in the context of the biennale.",
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97
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"text": "After all, a vague, archaic, mostly harmless tradition fraught with pomp and ceremony and mawkish self-aggrandising with a bit of royalty thrown in is about the most British thing imaginable and would never happen in a boring sensible country like Germany.",
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
"word": "treacly"
}
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{
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{
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"word": "unstomachable"
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{
"ipa": "/ˈmɑːkɪʃ/",
"tags": [
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]
},
{
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}
],
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"word": "bathetic"
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{
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"word": "cheesy"
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{
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"word": "corny"
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"word": "drippy"
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"word": "overemotional"
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"word": "overwrought"
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