Crossword-Solution: MAWKISH
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Mawkish | a. | Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; disgusting. |
| Mawkish | a. | Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious. |
We have 20 clues for the answer “MAWKISH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| feebly sentimental | 1 answer |
| Insincerely emotional | 1 answer |
| Extravagantly emotional | 2 answers |
| Sickly sentimental | 2 answers |
| Foolishly sentimental | 3 answers |
| Lovey-dovey | 7 answers |
| Syrupy. | 15 answers |
| bathetic | 25 answers |
| stereotyped | 41 answers |
| drear | 44 answers |
| corny | 47 answers |
| mushy | 47 answers |
| Overused | 48 answers |
| sickly | 54 answers |
| Known | 55 answers |
| Pedestrian | 59 answers |
| unanimated | 61 answers |
| Commonplace | 68 answers |
| Sentimental | 69 answers |
| Fatuous | 75 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EEATR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MAWKISH (5)
Can a man of perception respect himself at all? V Come, can a man who attempts to find enjoyment in the very feeling of his own degradation possibly have a spark of respect for himself? I am not saying this now from any mawkish kind of remorse.
But no man need die for the water a poet can give, and all can drink it to the end of time, and their thirst be quenched and the pool never dry—and the thirst and the water are both blessed.’ It was in the Greeks particularly that he found this blessed water; he loved ‘a fresh air’ which he found ‘about the Greek things even in translations’; he loved their freedom from the mawkish and the rancid.
You’d hear of odd things if I lived alone with that mawkish, waxen face: the most ordinary would be painting on its white the colours of the rainbow, and turning the blue eyes black, every day or two: they detestably resemble Linton’s.” “Delectably!” observed Catherine.
Not for show, not querulously, not in any mawkish sentiment, but in the deep grief and affliction of her heart; turning away her dishevelled head: sobbing most bitterly, wringing her hands, and letting fall abundance of great tears, that choked her utterance.
Froude's words, the rough simplicity is gone, and has been replaced by a tone of sentiment which is almost mawkish.
Quotes with MAWKISH (3)
Life is a collection of memories and feelings. Mawkish sentimentally urges us to engage in artistic overtures, we yearn to share with other people a melody of rudimentary experiences and respond to a stabilizing tune strung together with a shared ethos. We walk in parallel strides with our brethren seeking out equivalent affirmations of our being. We long to shout out to the world that we once walked this earth; we seek to leave in our wake traces of our pithy habitation. Our…
The lovelorn, the cry-for-helpers, all mawkish tragedians who give suicide a bad name are the idiots who rush it, like amateur conductors. .A true suicide is a paced, disciplined certainty. People pontificate, 'Suicide is selfishness.' Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call it a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reasons: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one’s audience with one’s mental fiber, to vent anger, or just …
The rich never have a chance of being neighborly to their equals. The best they can do is feel mawkish about the sufferings of their inferiors, which they can never begin to understand, and to be patronizingly kind.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1970–2009).