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mawkish

Synonyms

Adjective

1. bathetic

2. drippy, hokey, maudlin, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, emotional

Usage
‘The Most Precious of Cargoes’ Review: Michel Hazanavicius’ Mawkish Animated Holocaust Fable - IMDb
‘500 Miles’ review: Bill Nighy and Maisie Williams star in mawkish Irish drama - Screen Daily
Melbourne University loses appeal to avoid rehiring ‘mawkish’ professor - The Age
Melbourne University loses appeal to avoid rehiring ‘mawkish’ professor - WAtoday
‘Rental Family’ Review: A Mawkish Portrait of a Struggling Actor’s Journey of Self-Discovery - Slant Magazine
Against All Odds, Mawkish Rom-Com Love at First Sight Is a Cozy Tearjerker - Paste Magazine
‘Goodbye June’ Review: Kate Winslet Makes Her Directorial Debut With a Formulaic Family Weepie - Variety
'Punch' Broadway Review: A True Story of Manslaughter Makes a Mawkish Transfer to the Stage - TheWrap
Mawkish, maybe. But Avatar is a profound, insightful, important film | George Monbiot - The Guardian
Review: Everyone Goes Soft at Mawkish, Pandering Grammys - KQED
'Lisey's Story' Is Mawkish, Dull and Too Long by Half - Time Magazine
Heavenly Ever After: mawkish and confounding K-drama - South China Morning Post
Goodbye June review: a strong cast can‘t redeem Kate Winslet’s mawkish cancer drama - Time Out Worldwide
What Happens Later: mawkish airport-set romcom struggles to get off the ground - BFI
This is a surreal form of grief, circling like a mawkish TikTok feed - New Statesman
‘Here’ Review: Robert Zemeckis’s High-Concept Family Epic Is a Mawkish Misfire - Slant Magazine
How to Make Gravy review – a well-intentioned, mawkish misfire - The Guardian
'Come What May' Review: A Mawkish WWII drama - Variety
Bittersweet by Susan Cain review – a mawkish manifesto for the happy-sad - The Guardian
True Spirit review – Netflix’s Jessica Watson biopic is cheesy and mawkish - The Guardian
Sunset Boulevard review – Sarah Brightman disappoints in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s mawkish musical - The Guardian
‘Simone: Woman of the Century’ Review: Olivier Dahan’s Lavish but Mawkish Biopic of Simone Veil - Variety
More ‘Best Man’: Mawkish Drama Spoils Great Acting in the Sequel to the 1999 Film - Coachella Valley Independent
A plane crash becomes a blind date from hell in the mawkish and clumsy The Mountain Between Us - A.V. Club
My Freaky Family review – overly quirky and unforgivably mawkish animation - The Guardian
Jonathan Jones on Millais the master - The Guardian
‘The Last Laugh’ Review: A Mawkish Attempt at an Old Kind of Schtick (Published 2019) - The New York Times
Review: Mawkish and preachy biopic Big George Foreman goes down for the count - The Globe and Mail
Mixed Reviews For Bob Marley Biopic. Mawkish Or Moving? - The St Kitts Nevis Observer
Sadvertising: why banking TV ads become more mawkish in a crisis - The Telegraph
‘Ya Veremos’ Film Review: Mawkish Family Melodrama Has an Eye for Formula - TheWrap
Axis of Tweeville: Mawkish Brit Food Culture V The Glory Of Keith Floyd - The Quietus
Despite Mawkish Liberal Nostalgia, Barack Obama Was a Bad President for the Left - Paste Magazine
La Damnation de Faust review – Hawking walks and snails mate in mawkish opera | Hector Berlioz - The Guardian
Michael Caine is let down by mawkish patriotism in The Great Escaper – review - The Independent
Watch: The Crown’s depiction of Princess Diana’s death is intrusive and mawkish | Royal Insight - The Telegraph
Blinded by the Light review – Bruce Springsteen inspires mawkish misfire - The Guardian
Men, Women & Children review – mawkish and clichéd - The Guardian
‘The Most Precious of Cargoes’ Review: Michel Hazanavicius’ Mawkish Animated Holocaust Fable - The Hollywood Reporter
Not even Melissa McCarthy can save mawkish drama The Starling - SMH.com.au
The Secret Scripture review – a mawkish slog - The Guardian
Review: Mawkish, teen-friendly 'Space Between Us' fails to launch - USA Today
Chris Lilley’s Lunatics has deadpan cringe, great dialogue but is more mawkish than outrageous - The Conversation
Film review: Danny Collins - mawkish humour, but oozing goodwill - South China Morning Post
Your Lie in April at the Harold Pinter Theatre review: glib, mawkish and riddled with clichés - London Evening Standard
Light Shop: mawkish supernatural K-drama of two halves - South China Morning Post
Fathers and Daughters review – mawkish twaddle meets ripe platitudes | Drama films - The Guardian
‘Miracles From Heaven’ is a mawkish tale of a medical miracle - The Washington Post
‘Manchi Rojulochaie’ movie review: A mawkish take on parenthood - The Hindu
The Space Between Us review – cosmically mawkish teen romance - The Guardian
‘Feast of Love’ movie review: Morgan Freeman stars in mawkish adaptation - The Prague Reporter
The Best Of Me, film review: Terminally mawkish tearjerker is hard to stomach - The Independent
'Pollyanna' cheers everyone up without getting too mawkish - SFGATE
The Christmas Chronicles 2, review: Kurt Russell returns with more mawkish festive tat - The Telegraph
Southpaw review: Jake Gyllenhaal's boxing drama a mawkish mess - SMH.com.au
Melbourne Uni professor sacked over ‘mawkish’ romantic messages wins his job back - The Age
A ‘mawkish’ view of the military - The Times
Chris Lilley's Lunatics has deadpan cringe, great dialogue but is more mawkish than outrageous - Mumbrella
James Corden slammed by Roald Dahl fanatics over ''mawkish'' narration of Esio Trot - The Mirror
Foreign Language Equivalents
Foreign Language Equivalents of 'mawkish'
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French    Spanish
Misspellings - Typos
,   nawkish,   maqkish,   mawwkish,   mawkiah,   mawksih,   mawjish,   maawkish,   mawkisg,   mawish,   mwkish,   amwkish,   mawkihs,   mawkishh,   mswkish,   mawkosh,   mmawkish,   mawkidh,   awkish,   mawkkish,   mawkisj,   mawkissh,   mawkush,   mawiksh,   makish,   mawkih,   mawkis,   mawkiish,   makwish,   mwakish,   mawlish,   ,awkish,   maekish,   mawksh
Words Starting with Letter - 'A'
a a battery a billion
a bit a bit much a capella singing
a cappella singing a couple of a few
a fortiori a good deal a great deal
a horizon a hundred a hundred and one
a hundred thousand a hundred times a kempis
a la carte a la mode a level
a little a lot a million
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