MAWKISH vs SCHMALTZY: ADJECTIVE
- Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment.
- Sickening or insipid in taste or smell.
- Feeling sick, queasy.
- Weakly sentimental; maudlin.
- Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious.
- Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; slightly nauseating; disgusting.
- Having a sickening taste.
- Excessively and objectionably sentimental. : sentimental.
- Effusively or insincerely emotional
- Overly sentimental, emotional, maudlin or bathetic.
- Effusively or insincerely emotional
MAWKISH vs SCHMALTZY: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Insipid; sickening; sickly: as, mawkish champagne; mawkish sentimentality.
- Maggoty. [Not found in this literal sense. Compare mawky, 1.] Hence Loathsome; apt to cause loathing or nausea; sickening.
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MAWKISH vs SCHMALTZY: RELATED WORDS
- Saccharine, Treacly, Sappy, Melodramatic, Hokey, Sentimentality, Cloying, Schmalzy, Slushy, Emotional, Mushy, Sentimental, Bathetic, Schmaltzy, Maudlin
- Hokey, Saccharine, Cheesy, Corny, Melodramatic, Treacly, Sappy, Schmalzy, Slushy, Emotional, Mushy, Sentimental, Bathetic, Mawkish, Maudlin
MAWKISH vs SCHMALTZY: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Saccharine, Treacly, Sappy, Melodramatic, Hokey, Sentimentality, Cloying, Schmalzy, Slushy, Emotional, Mushy, Sentimental, Bathetic, Schmaltzy, Maudlin
- Hokey, Saccharine, Cheesy, Corny, Melodramatic, Treacly, Sappy, Schmalzy, Slushy, Emotional, Mushy, Sentimental, Bathetic, Mawkish, Maudlin
MAWKISH vs SCHMALTZY: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- The cover also sounds more passionate and emotional, to the point where it transcends the rather mawkish lyrics.
- The fruit is oonmdered too sweet and mawkish by many, while some prefer it to the banana.
- Beautifully written, tender without being mawkish, it aufb00ects me deeply every time I see it performed.
- Which makes it feel even more mawkish and sentimental than it already is.
- They are fine and virile, with underlying sentiment, yet free from the faintest suspicion of mawkish sentimentality.
- Emma, for they merge in mawkish amalgams that attest to the implausibility of their combination.
- The Jazz Singer is mawkish, crudely filmed, and full of schmaltz.
- The gorgeous song is emotionally powerful without being mawkish.
- Arcadian spirit was anything but mawkish and affected.
- There was nothing mawkish or staged about it.
- Uptown supper clubs, singing schmaltzy songs to the drunks, fighting to get to the top of the ladder.
- Every night the little trio stayed up late, boozing, having schmaltzy confessions, and engaging in long, earnest sophomore discussions about the meaning of life.
- And parents will appreciate the gentle message about overindulgence and the value of integrity, which avoids straying into schmaltzy turf.
- There'll be tears, schmaltzy speeches, a spectacular explosion and some bizarre out-of-body experiences for one special agent whose life hangs in the balance.
- When it first appeared on bookshelves it was marketed with a schmaltzy romance cover.
- Now for the schmaltzy moment of the set with an infectious chorus.
MAWKISH vs SCHMALTZY: QUESTIONS
- What is the answer to mawkish sentimentality with 4 letters?
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