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mawkish

Synonyms

Adjective

1. bathetic

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

Usage
‘The Most Precious of Cargoes’ Review: Michel Hazanavicius’ Mawkish Animated Holocaust Fable - IMDb
‘500 Miles’ review: Bill Nighy and Maisie Williams star in mawkish Irish drama - Screen Daily
Ella Baron on the EHRC’s transgender code of practice – cartoon - The Guardian
Melbourne University loses appeal to avoid rehiring ‘mawkish’ professor - The Age
‘Rental Family’ Review: A Mawkish Portrait of a Struggling Actor’s Journey of Self-Discovery - Slant Magazine
Against All Odds, Mawkish Rom-Com Love at First Sight Is a Cozy Tearjerker - Paste Magazine
‘Goodbye June’ Review: Kate Winslet Makes Her Directorial Debut With a Formulaic Family Weepie - Variety
'Punch' Broadway Review: A True Story of Manslaughter Makes a Mawkish Transfer to the Stage - TheWrap
‘We Live in Time’ Review: A Tearjerker Told in Fragments - WSJ
Review: Everyone Goes Soft at Mawkish, Pandering Grammys - KQED
Heavenly Ever After: mawkish and confounding K-drama - South China Morning Post
'Lisey's Story' Is Mawkish, Dull and Too Long by Half - Time Magazine
Lights Out, With a Whimper - The Atlantic
Rental Family review – Brendan Fraser is stranded in mawkish misfire - 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
Mawkish monuments and the beach from hell: our verdict on the Venice Biennale - The Guardian
How to Make Gravy review – a well-intentioned, mawkish misfire - The Guardian
I feared the Grenfell tributes would be mawkish. I was wrong - The Guardian
Goodbye June review: a strong cast can‘t redeem Kate Winslet’s mawkish cancer drama - Time Out Worldwide
What Happens Later: mawkish airport-set romcom struggles to get off the ground - BFI
'Come What May' Review: A Mawkish WWII drama - Variety
Bittersweet by Susan Cain review – a mawkish manifesto for the happy-sad - 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
Sunset Boulevard review – Sarah Brightman disappoints in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s mawkish musical - The Guardian
‘Simone: Woman of the Century’ Review: Olivier Dahan’s Lavish but Mawkish Biopic of Simone Veil - Variety
‘Life Itself’ is unrealistic, mawkish - Gulf Breeze News
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
My Freaky Family review – overly quirky and unforgivably mawkish animation - The Guardian
A plane crash becomes a blind date from hell in the mawkish and clumsy The Mountain Between Us - A.V. Club
Jonathan Jones on Millais the master - The Guardian
‘The Last Laugh’ Review: A Mawkish Attempt at an Old Kind of Schtick (Published 2019) - The New York Times
'Narratage' Review: A Mawkish But Moving Student-Teacher Romance - Variety
Review: Mawkish and preachy biopic Big George Foreman goes down for the count - The Globe and Mail
Mixed Reviews For Bob Marley Biopic. Mawkish Or Moving? - The St Kitts Nevis Observer
Sadvertising: why banking TV ads become more mawkish in a crisis - The Telegraph
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
Axis of Tweeville: Mawkish Brit Food Culture V The Glory Of Keith Floyd - The Quietus
Cost of Living review – fertile power dynamics diluted by mawkish writing - The Guardian
Elio review: a sweet little guide to the galaxy | Sight and Sound - BFI
Here review – a de-aged Tom Hanks and Robin Wright grow old together in mawkish tear-jerker - The Guardian
La Damnation de Faust review – Hawking walks and snails mate in mawkish opera | Hector Berlioz - The Guardian
Michael Caine is let down by mawkish patriotism in The Great Escaper – review - The Independent
Watch: The Crown’s depiction of Princess Diana’s death is intrusive and mawkish | Royal Insight - The Telegraph
Blinded by the Light review – Bruce Springsteen inspires mawkish misfire - The Guardian
Collateral Beauty review – mawkish drama - The Guardian
Men, Women & Children review – mawkish and clichéd - The Guardian
White Bird Review: Fantastical but Mawkish Movie Follow-Up to Wonder - MovieWeb
‘The Most Precious of Cargoes’ Review: Michel Hazanavicius’ Mawkish Animated Holocaust Fable - The Hollywood Reporter
Not even Melissa McCarthy can save mawkish drama The Starling - SMH.com.au
Review: Mawkish, teen-friendly 'Space Between Us' fails to launch - USA Today
The Hollars review: mawkish John Krasinski comedy feels like long sitcom - The Guardian
The Secret Scripture review – a mawkish slog - The Guardian
Chris Lilley’s Lunatics has deadpan cringe, great dialogue but is more mawkish than outrageous - The Conversation
Life Itself: Goopy, mawkish drama that will leave you in tears for all the wrong reasons - The Irish Times
Your Lie in April at the Harold Pinter Theatre review: glib, mawkish and riddled with clichés - London Evening Standard
Film review: Danny Collins - mawkish humour, but oozing goodwill - South China Morning Post
Banksy’s latest artwork peddles a mawkish fantasy about the NHS - The Telegraph
Light Shop: mawkish supernatural K-drama of two halves - South China Morning Post
‘Manchi Rojulochaie’ movie review: A mawkish take on parenthood - The Hindu
‘Miracles From Heaven’ is a mawkish tale of a medical miracle - The Washington Post
The Space Between Us review – cosmically mawkish teen romance - The Guardian
Fathers and Daughters review – mawkish twaddle meets ripe platitudes | Drama films - The Guardian
'Miss You Already' review: Drew Barrymore, Toni Collette melodrama is mawkish but well made - OregonLive.com
The Best Of Me, film review: Terminally mawkish tearjerker is hard to stomach - The Independent
‘Feast of Love’ movie review: Morgan Freeman stars in mawkish adaptation - The Prague Reporter
'Pollyanna' cheers everyone up without getting too mawkish - SFGATE
Despite Mawkish Liberal Nostalgia, Barack Obama Was a Bad President for the Left - Paste Magazine
The Christmas Chronicles 2, review: Kurt Russell returns with more mawkish festive tat - The Telegraph
Southpaw review: Jake Gyllenhaal's boxing drama a mawkish mess - SMH.com.au
'Avatar': 'Do not confuse animal mawkishness with environmental action' - Le Monde.fr
Professor sacked for relationship with student gets his job back - AFR
Melbourne Uni professor sacked over ‘mawkish’ romantic messages wins his job back - The Age
A ‘mawkish’ view of the military - The Times
A Dog's Way Home movie review: Easy family watch but for several mawkish, manipulative moments - Firstpost
Together: mildly mawkish, but Jamie Oliver delivers as usual on the food front - The Grocer
‘Shakuntala Devi’ movie review: Loud, mawkish and joyful - The Hindu
Dear Maya movie review: Manisha Koirala is the star in this mawkish coming-of-age story - India Today
Chris Lilley's Lunatics has deadpan cringe, great dialogue but is more mawkish than outrageous - Mumbrella
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
James Corden slammed by Roald Dahl fanatics over ''mawkish'' narration of Esio Trot - The Mirror
Foreign Language Equivalents
Foreign Language Equivalents of 'mawkish'
Language Equivalent   Language Equivalent
French    Spanish
Misspellings - Typos
mmawkish,   mawksih,   mawkishh,   mawkisj,   awkish,   mawkissh,   mawish,   mwakish,   mawjish,   mawkosh,   mawkisg,   mawkiish,   mawkihs,   mawkkish,   mawkidh,   makwish,   mawkih,   mawlish,   mawwkish,   makish,   mawiksh,   mawkiah,   ,awkish,   maqkish,   nawkish,   maawkish,   mawksh,   mawkush,   amwkish,   maekish,   mwkish,   mswkish,   mawkis
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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