mawkishness

  • 51slush — Synonyms and related words: avalanche, bathos, big mouth, bleeding heart, blizzard, candor, clay, cloyingness, communicativeness, conversableness, crystal, driven snow, effusion, effusiveness, flake, flow of words, flowing tongue, fluency, fluent …

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  • 52soap opera — Synonyms and related words: Grand Guignol, Passion play, Tom show, antimasque, audience success, ballet, bathos, bleeding heart, bomb, broadcast, broadcast drama, burlesque show, canned show, charade, cliff hanger, closet drama, cloyingness,… …

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  • 53sob story — Synonyms and related words: bathos, bleeding heart, cloyingness, goo, hearts and flowers, maudlinness, mawkishness, mush, mushiness, namby pamby, namby pambyism, namby pambyness, nostalgia, nostomania, oversentimentalism, oversentimentality,… …

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  • 54sweet — Synonyms and related words: Jell O, accommodating, achingly sweet, admirable, adorable, affable, aftertaste, agreeable, agreeable sounding, ambrosial, amiable, amicable, angel, angelic, appealing, ariose, arioso, aromatic, attentive, attractive,… …

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  • 55sweetness and light — Synonyms and related words: bathos, bleeding heart, cloyingness, goo, hearts and flowers, maudlinness, mawkishness, mush, mushiness, namby pamby, namby pambyism, namby pambyness, nostalgia, nostomania, oversentimentalism, oversentimentality,… …

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  • 56tearjerker — Synonyms and related words: bathos, bleeding heart, cloyingness, goo, hearts and flowers, maudlinness, mawkishness, mush, mushiness, namby pamby, namby pambyism, namby pambyness, nostalgia, nostomania, oversentimentalism, oversentimentality,… …

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  • 57maudlinism — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The quality or condition of being affectedly or overly emotional: bathos, mawkishness, senti mentalism, sentimentality. Informal: mush, mushiness, schmaltz, schmaltziness, sloppiness. Slang: sappiness. See FEELINGS …

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  • 58mushiness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Informal. The quality or condition of being affectedly or overly emotional: bathos, maud linism, mawkishness, sentimentalism, sentimentality. Informal: mush, schmaltz, schmahziness, sloppiness. Slang: sappiness. See… …

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  • 59sappiness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Slang. The quality or condition of being affectedly or overly emotional: bathos, maudlinism, mawkishness, sentimentalism, sentimentality. Informal: mush, mushiness, schmaltz, schmaltziness, sloppiness. See FEELINGS …

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  • 60schmaltz — (Roget s Thesaurus II) also schmalz noun Informal. The quality or condition of being affectedly or overly emotional: bathos, maud linism, mawkishness, sentimentalism, sentimentality. Informal: mush, mushiness, schmaltziness, sloppiness. Slang:… …

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