mawkishness
61schmaltziness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) also schmalziness noun Informal. The quality or condition of being affectedly or overly emotional: bathos, maud linism, mawkishness, sentimentalism, sentimentality. Informal: mush, mushiness, schmaltz, sloppiness. Slang:… …
62sloppiness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. The state of being messy or unkempt: disor derliness, messiness, slovenliness, untidiness. See ORDER. 2. Informal. The quality or condition of being affectedly or overly emotional: bathos, maudlinism, mawkishness,… …
63mawkish — mawk|ish [ˈmo:kıʃ US ˈmo: ] adj [Date: 1600 1700; Origin: mawk maggot (15 19 centuries), from Old Norse mathkr] showing too much emotion in a way that is embarrassing = ↑sentimental ▪ a mawkish love story >mawkishly adv >mawkishness n [U] …
64mawkish — 1660s, sickly, nauseated, from M.E. mawke maggot (see MAGGOT (Cf. maggot)). Sense of sickly sentimental is first recorded 1702. Related: Mawkishly; mawkishness …
65glop — n. sticky pulp; sticky disgusting liquid or food (Slang); something worthless (such as a piece of writing); mawkishness …
66mawkish — adjective 1》 sentimental in a feeble or sickly way. 2》 archaic or dialect having a faint sickly flavour. Derivatives mawkishly adverb mawkishness noun Origin C17 (in the sense inclined to sickness ): from obs. mawk maggot , from ON mathkr, of Gmc …
67insipidity — n.; (also insipidness) 1. Tastelessness, vapidness mawkishness, unsavoriness, staleness, flatness, lack of zest. 2. Dulness, lifelessness, stupidity, tameness, prosiness, heaviness, lack of interest, uninteresting character …
68platitude — n. 1. Insipidity, flatness, dulness, mawkishness. 2. Truism, trite remark. 3. Twaddle, verbiage, palaver, trash, chatter, stuff, fudge, nonsense, moonshine, flummery, wish wash, balderdash, jargon, senseless prate, frothy discourse, idle talk …
69mawkish — adjective showing too much emotion in a way that is embarrassing; sentimental: a mawkish love story mawkishly adverb mawkishness noun (U) …
70sentiment — noun 1) the comments echo my own sentiments Syn: view, feeling, attitude, thought, opinion, belief See note at opinion 2) there s no room for sentiment in this sport Syn: sentimentality …
