mawkish

Adjective Satellite

• effusively or insincerely emotional

Adj

• Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment.
• Feeling sick, queasy.
• Sickening or insipid in taste or smell.

Adjective

• Sentimental in a feeble or sickly way; overly emotional.

Examples

• His mawkish plea for pity after a bad draw earned him no sympathy.

Synonyms

bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy, cutesy, sickly-sweet

Antonyms

rational

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