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mawkish

Synonyms

Adjective

1. bathetic

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

Usage
Parliament has become dangerously mawkish - The Spectator
‘500 Miles’ review: Bill Nighy and Maisie Williams star in mawkish Irish drama - Screen Daily
‘Goodbye June’ Review: Kate Winslet Makes Her Directorial Debut With a Formulaic Family Weepie - Variety
Rental Family review – Brendan Fraser is stranded in mawkish misfire - The Guardian
‘Rental Family’ Review: A Mawkish Portrait of a Struggling Actor’s Journey of Self-Discovery - Slant Magazine
'Punch' Broadway Review: A True Story of Manslaughter Makes a Mawkish Transfer to the Stage - TheWrap
Goodbye June review: a strong cast can‘t redeem Kate Winslet’s mawkish cancer drama - Time Out Worldwide
Lights Out, With a Whimper - The Atlantic
Mawkish ‘Blinded By The Light’ Wears Its Too-Hungry Heart On Its Sleeve - WAMU
‘We Live in Time’ Review: A Tearjerker Told in Fragments - WSJ
'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
Review: Everyone Goes Soft at Mawkish, Pandering Grammys - KQED
Melbourne University loses appeal to avoid rehiring ‘mawkish’ professor - The Age
What Happens Later: mawkish airport-set romcom struggles to get off the ground - BFI
Mawkish monuments and the beach from hell: our verdict on the Venice Biennale - The Guardian
‘Here’ Review: Robert Zemeckis’s High-Concept Family Epic Is a Mawkish Misfire - Slant Magazine
Mawkish, maybe. But Avatar is a profound, insightful, important film | George Monbiot - The Guardian
How to Make Gravy review – a well-intentioned, mawkish misfire - The Guardian
Bittersweet by Susan Cain review – a mawkish manifesto for the happy-sad - The Guardian
Moving, not mawkish: Iconic Iowa tale ‘Bridges of Madison County’ comes to Eastern Iowa - Little Village Magazine
Sunset Boulevard review – Sarah Brightman disappoints in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s mawkish musical - The Guardian
This is a surreal form of grief, circling like a mawkish TikTok feed - New Statesman
True Spirit review – Netflix’s Jessica Watson biopic is cheesy and mawkish - The Guardian
'Come What May' Review: A Mawkish WWII drama - Variety
‘Simone: Woman of the Century’ Review: Olivier Dahan’s Lavish but Mawkish Biopic of Simone Veil - Variety
Jonathan Jones on Millais the master - The Guardian
After Life ended superbly: Good coming from grief is not mawkish - The Globe and Mail
Melbourne University loses appeal to avoid rehiring ‘mawkish’ professor - SMH.com.au
‘Life Itself’ is unrealistic, mawkish - Gulf Breeze News
Sadvertising: why banking TV ads become more mawkish in a crisis - The Telegraph
Jerry Lewis deserves better than the mawkish ‘Max Rose’ - Pioneer Press
More ‘Best Man’: Mawkish Drama Spoils Great Acting in the Sequel to the 1999 Film - Coachella Valley Independent
Against All Odds, Mawkish Rom-Com Love at First Sight Is a Cozy Tearjerker - Paste Magazine
Review: Film adaptation of Stephen King's 'Life of Chuck' is mawkish and strange - Houston Chronicle
'Narratage' Review: A Mawkish But Moving Student-Teacher Romance - Variety
All The Light We Cannot See Review: A Rushed And Mawkish Adaptation - looper.com
‘Ya Veremos’ Film Review: Mawkish Family Melodrama Has an Eye for Formula - TheWrap
Mawkish rom-com ‘And So It Goes’ is as bad as it gets - New York Post
Here review – a de-aged Tom Hanks and Robin Wright grow old together in mawkish tear-jerker - The Guardian
My Freaky Family review – overly quirky and unforgivably mawkish animation - The Guardian
Cost of Living review – fertile power dynamics diluted by mawkish writing - The Guardian
‘The Last Laugh’ Review: A Mawkish Attempt at an Old Kind of Schtick (Published 2019) - The New York Times
Axis of Tweeville: Mawkish Brit Food Culture V The Glory Of Keith Floyd - The Quietus
Michael Caine is let down by mawkish patriotism in The Great Escaper – review - The Independent
Blinded by the Light review – Bruce Springsteen inspires mawkish misfire - The Guardian
Mixed Reviews For Bob Marley Biopic. Mawkish Or Moving? - The St Kitts Nevis Observer
La Damnation de Faust review – Hawking walks and snails mate in mawkish opera | Hector Berlioz - The Guardian
Watch: The Crown’s depiction of Princess Diana’s death is intrusive and mawkish | Royal Insight - The Telegraph
Not even Melissa McCarthy can save mawkish drama The Starling - SMH.com.au
Collateral Beauty review – mawkish drama - The Guardian
Men, Women & Children review – mawkish and clichéd - The Guardian
Elio review: a sweet little guide to the galaxy - BFI
The Secret Scripture review – a mawkish slog - The Guardian
White Bird Review: Fantastical but Mawkish Movie Follow-Up to Wonder - MovieWeb
The Hollars review: mawkish John Krasinski comedy feels like long sitcom - The Guardian
Your Lie in April at the Harold Pinter Theatre review: glib, mawkish and riddled with clichés - London Evening Standard
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
Review: Mawkish, teen-friendly 'Space Between Us' fails to launch - USA Today
'Mr. Morgan's Last Love': Michael Caine Stars in Mawkish Melodrama - Variety
Fathers and Daughters review – mawkish twaddle meets ripe platitudes | Drama films - The Guardian
Life Itself: Goopy, mawkish drama that will leave you in tears for all the wrong reasons - The Irish Times
‘The Most Precious of Cargoes’ Review: Michel Hazanavicius’ Mawkish Animated Holocaust Fable - The Hollywood Reporter
Banksy’s latest artwork peddles a mawkish fantasy about the NHS - The Telegraph
Melbourne Uni professor sacked over ‘mawkish’ romantic messages wins his job back - The Age
German ‘Labyrinth of Lies’ hits every Holocaust film cliché - New York Post
'Miss You Already' review: Drew Barrymore, Toni Collette melodrama is mawkish but well made - OregonLive.com
‘Allied’: Suspenseful spy setup bogs down in mawkish melodrama - The Washington Post
‘Miracles From Heaven’ is a mawkish tale of a medical miracle - The Washington Post
Light Shop: mawkish supernatural K-drama of two halves - South China Morning Post
The Space Between Us review – cosmically mawkish teen romance - The Guardian
A plane crash becomes a blind date from hell in the mawkish and clumsy The Mountain Between Us - A.V. Club
Mawkish tabloid fare: how the Amy Winehouse film fails - New Statesman
‘Manchi Rojulochaie’ movie review: A mawkish take on parenthood - The Hindu
'Kong: Skull Island' 'Groove' Trailer Ditches The Mawkish Cover For EDM Drop - player.one
Southpaw review: Jake Gyllenhaal's boxing drama a mawkish mess - SMH.com.au
The Best Of Me, film review: Terminally mawkish tearjerker is hard to stomach - The Independent
The Christmas Chronicles 2, review: Kurt Russell returns with more mawkish festive tat - The Telegraph
'Pollyanna' cheers everyone up without getting too mawkish - SFGATE
'Avatar': 'Do not confuse animal mawkishness with environmental action' - Le Monde.fr
‘Feast of Love’ movie review: Morgan Freeman stars in mawkish adaptation - The Prague Reporter
Laal Singh Chaddha Review: Forrest Gump, Minus The Mawkishness - SlashFilm
A Dog's Way Home movie review: Easy family watch but for several mawkish, manipulative moments - Firstpost
Blitz (2024) Movie Review: McQueen’s Mawkish Melodrama Misses the Mark - High On Films
Chris Lilley's Lunatics has deadpan cringe, great dialogue but is more mawkish than outrageous - Mumbrella
Dear Maya movie review: Manisha Koirala is the star in this mawkish coming-of-age story - India Today
‘Shakuntala Devi’ movie review: Loud, mawkish and joyful - The Hindu
Whale graveyard full of mawkish tat - The Daily Mash
Give It a Year, review, ITV: ‘Contrived, mawkish and deadly dull’ - The i Paper
Sarbjit review: Aishwarya and Randeep-starrer is a screechy, mawkish melodrama - India Today
Hamari Adhuri Kahani review: It's a mawkish soap opera - India Today
‘Goodbye June’ (2025) Netflix Movie Review - An Earnest, Mawkish, Good-Hearted Piffle | MOVIESR.NET - Midgard Times
James Corden slammed by Roald Dahl fanatics over ''mawkish'' narration of Esio Trot - Mirror
Foreign Language Equivalents
Foreign Language Equivalents of 'mawkish'
Language Equivalent   Language Equivalent
French    Spanish
Misspellings - Typos
makish,   mawksih,   mawkiish,   mawkisj,   mwkish,   mawkis,   nawkish,   mawkihs,   mawwkish,   mawkishh,   mawkisg,   mawkosh,   amwkish,   mawkkish,   mwakish,   mawlish,   mawjish,   mmawkish,   makwish,   mawkih,   maqkish,   mawkiah,   mawkissh,   maekish,   mswkish,   mawksh,   maawkish,   mawiksh,   mawkush,   mawkidh,   awkish,   mawish,   ,awkish
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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