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71bathos — *pathos, poignancy Analogous words: mawkishness, maudlinism, soppiness, mushiness (see corresponding adjectives at SENTIMENTAL) …
72platitude — *commonplace, truism, bromide, cliché Analogous words: banality, inanity, vapidity, insipidity (see corresponding adjectives at INSIPID): mawkishness, sentimentality (see corresponding adjectives at SENTIMENTAL) …
73bathos — n 1. anticlimax, comedown, letdown, bringdown, drop. 2. triteness, triviality, superficiality, shallowness; inanity, insipidness, emptiness, vacuity, vapidity, jejuneness; dullness, lifelessness, deadness, staleness; weakness, thinness, wishy… …
74emotionalism — n 1. sentimentality, gushiness, mawkishness, maudlinism, maudlinness, play on or appeal to one s emotions, emotiveness, emotivity; melodrama, melodramatics, dramatics, theatrics, playacting, tears and laughter; sensationalism, showiness,… …
75sensationalism — n melodrama, luridness, vividness, shock; blood and thunder, blood and guts, yellow journalism; exaggeration, extremity, extravagance; emotionalism, sentimentality, mawkishness, maudlinness, morbidity …
76sentimentality — n emotionalism, gushiness, mawkishness, maudlinism, maudlinness, sentimentalism; emo tiveness, emotivity, play on or appeal to the emotions, melodrama, melodramatics, dramatics, theatrics, playacting; corniness, hokiness, affectation; bathos,… …
77mawkish — UK [ˈmɔːkɪʃ] / US [ˈmɔkɪʃ] adjective emotional in a silly and embarrassing way Derived words: mawkishly adverb mawkishness noun uncountable …
78glop — [[t]glɒp[/t]] n. Informal. 1) inf any gooey or gelatinous substance, esp. soft unappetizing food 2) inf sentimentality; mawkishness • Etymology: 1940–45; expressive word akin to goop, gulp glop′py, adj. pi•er, pi•est …
79Dickens, Charles — (1812 1870) Novelist, b. at Landport, near Portsmouth, where his f. was a clerk in the Navy Pay Office. The hardships and mortifications of his early life, his want of regular schooling, and his miserable time in the blacking factory, which… …
80Sterne, Laurence — (1713 1768) Novelist, s. of an officer in the army, and the great grandson of an Archbishop of York, was b. at Clonmel, where his father s regiment happened to be stationed, and passed part of his boyhood in Ireland. At the age of 10 he was… …
