mawkish

• Beschreibt etwas oder jemanden, der übertrieben sentimental oder gefühlvoll auf eine süßliche, kitschige oder unaufrichtige Weise ist.

Describes something that is excessively sentimental or emotional in a weak, sickly, or insincere way.

1. Overly sentimentalC1formal

   Expressing emotion in an exaggerated way that seems false or cloying.

   Süßlich-sentimental

   • The film's mawkish ending made many viewers roll their eyes.
   • He delivered a mawkish speech that failed to move the audience.
   • Her mawkish poetry was filled with forced sentimentality.
   • I find those pity commercials too mawkish to watch.

   Synonymecloyinggushingmaudlinmushysaccharineschmaltzysentimentalslushysoppysyrupy

   Antonymematter-of-factpragmaticrealisticrestrainedunsentimental

2. Weakly sentimentalC1formal

   Characterized by sickly or insipid emotion, lacking genuine depth.

   Rührselig

   • The novel's mawkish prose ruined the tragic plot.
   • He avoids mawkish birthday cards in favor of humorous ones.
   • The song was so mawkish that it felt like a parody of love ballads.
   • Critics dismissed the painting as a mawkish attempt at nostalgia.

   Synonymebathoscloyingcornyemotionalgushinggushyhokeylachrymosemaudlinoveremotionalsaccharineschmaltzysentimentalsicklyslushysoppytwee

   Antonymehardheadedmatter-of-factpracticalrealisticstoictough-mindedunemotionalunsentimental