6 November 2015
mawkish
[maw-kish]
adjective
1. characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin.
2. having a mildly sickening flavor; slightly nauseating.
Origin of mawkish
late Middle English Old Norse
1660-1670; obsolete mawk maggot ( late Middle English < Old Norse mathkr maggot) + -ish1. See maggot
Related forms
mawkishly, adverb
mawkishness, noun
Synonyms
1. sentimental, teary.
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Examples from the Web for mawkish
Contemporary Examples
The jibe is off-key too because Wilde himself was hardly immune to the sentimental and even the mawkish.
Charles Dickens’ Enduring Insights on Human Loss and Suffering
David Frum
February 17, 2013
Historical Examples
mawkish and over-mellow becometh the fruit in their hands: unsteady, and withered at the top, doth their look make the fruit-tree.
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
For mawkish, sentimental religion the Count had an honest contempt.
History of the Moravian Church
J. E. Hutton
Anagram
ski wham
ask whim
Today’s quote
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
― Plutarch
On this day
6 November 1985 – Iran-Contra Affair revealed in the media. U.S. President Ronald Reagan exposed as having sold arms to Iran in order to secure the release of Americans being held by an Iranian group and to also help the U.S. to continue illicitly funding the Nicaraguan Contras after Congress had banned further funding arrangements. The Contras were rebels who were committing human rights violations while opposing the ruling Marxist Sandinista regime. Numerous high-ranking members of the Reagan government were indicted, including Casper Weinberger (Secretary of Defence, later pardoned by President George H.W. Bush), William Casey (Head of CIA), Robert McFarlane (National Security Advisor), Oliver North (member of the National Security Council), and John Poindexter (National Security Advisor).
6 November 1999 – Australians vote to keep the Queen as head of state instead of establishing a republic.