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Word | Mawkish |
Gujarati Meaning | વિચિત્ર સ્વાદવાળું, સૂગ આવે એવું, વેવલું, ખોટી લાગણીને વશ, ચપચપિયું, ઘૃણાજનક |
effusively or insincerely emotional; a bathetic novel; maudlin expressons of sympathy; mushy effusiveness; a schmaltzy song; sentimental soap operas; slushy poetry / emotional to the point of being unpleasant / Apt to cause satiety or loathing / mushy and gushy; icky-sticky sentimental; maudlin / sentimental in a feeble or sickly way. / sad or romantic in a foolish or exaggerated way, | |
Usage | ⇒ It was a mawkish film ⇒ Whenever Gigi and her boyfriend would sigh and get all lovey-dovey, her little brother would shout, "Yuck!" protesting their mawkish behavior. ⇒ a mawkish plea for donations to the charity ⇒ a mawkish poem |
Synonyms | maudlin, sentimental, mushy, schmaltzy, slushy, soppy, sloppy, cloying, tear-jerking, bathetic, gooey, nauseating, romantic, gushy, hokey, soupy, schmalzy, sugary, tender, sappy, |
Antonyms | unemotional, serious, stoic, stolid, apathetic, calm, phlegmatic, antisentimental, beguile, blah, bland, cold, cold-blooded, crowning, cynical, dead, dead on target, dead set, deadpan, dry, |
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