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mawkish

Synonyms

Adjective

1. bathetic

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

Usage
‘500 Miles’ review: Bill Nighy and Maisie Williams star in mawkish Irish drama - Screen Daily
‘Rental Family’ Review: A Mawkish Portrait of a Struggling Actor’s Journey of Self-Discovery - Slant Magazine
Rental Family review – Brendan Fraser is stranded in mawkish misfire - The Guardian
'Punch' Broadway Review: A True Story of Manslaughter Makes a Mawkish Transfer to the Stage - TheWrap
Heavenly Ever After: mawkish and confounding K-drama - South China Morning Post
Melbourne University loses appeal to avoid rehiring ‘mawkish’ professor - The Age
‘Goodbye June’ Review: Kate Winslet Makes Her Directorial Debut With a Formulaic Family Weepie - Variety
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
Review: Film adaptation of Stephen King's 'Life of Chuck' is mawkish and strange - Houston Chronicle
Against All Odds, Mawkish Rom-Com Love at First Sight Is a Cozy Tearjerker - Paste Magazine
Melbourne Uni professor sacked over ‘mawkish’ romantic messages wins his job back - SMH.com.au
Review: Everyone Goes Soft at Mawkish, Pandering Grammys - KQED
‘We Live in Time’ Review: A Tearjerker Told in Fragments - WSJ
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
Melbourne Uni professor sacked over ‘mawkish’ romantic messages wins his job back - The Age
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
'Lisey's Story' Is Mawkish, Dull and Too Long by Half - Time Magazine
After Life ended superbly: Good coming from grief is not mawkish - The Globe and Mail
Despite Mawkish Liberal Nostalgia, Barack Obama Was a Bad President for the Left - Paste Magazine
'Come What May' Review: A Mawkish WWII drama - Variety
What Happens Later: mawkish airport-set romcom struggles to get off the ground - BFI
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
‘Here’ Review: Robert Zemeckis’s High-Concept Family Epic Is a Mawkish Misfire - IMDb
True Spirit review – Netflix’s Jessica Watson biopic is cheesy and mawkish - The Guardian
'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3' sends off its heroes with a mawkish mixtape - NPR
Jonathan Jones on Millais the master - The Guardian
Watch: The Crown’s depiction of Princess Diana’s death is intrusive and mawkish | Royal Insight - Yahoo
More ‘Best Man’: Mawkish Drama Spoils Great Acting in the Sequel to the 1999 Film - Coachella Valley Independent
‘Ya Veremos’ Film Review: Mawkish Family Melodrama Has an Eye for Formula - TheWrap
“Allied”: Suspenseful spy setup bogs down in mawkish melodrama - The Denver Post
A plane crash becomes a blind date from hell in the mawkish and clumsy The Mountain Between Us - AV Club
‘The Last Laugh’ Review: A Mawkish Attempt at an Old Kind of Schtick (Published 2019) - The New York Times
Here review – a de-aged Tom Hanks and Robin Wright grow old together in mawkish tear-jerker - The Guardian
‘Life Itself’ is unrealistic, mawkish - Gulf Breeze News
Mawkish rom-com ‘And So It Goes’ is as bad as it gets - New York Post
My Freaky Family review – overly quirky and unforgivably mawkish animation - The Guardian
The Space Between Us review – cosmically mawkish teen romance - The Guardian
Cost of Living review – fertile power dynamics diluted by mawkish writing - The Guardian
‘The Most Precious of Cargoes’ Review: Michel Hazanavicius’ Mawkish Animated Holocaust Fable - The Hollywood Reporter
'Narratage' Review: A Mawkish But Moving Student-Teacher Romance - Variety
Men, Women & Children review – mawkish and clichéd - The Guardian
Review: Mawkish, teen-friendly 'Space Between Us' fails to launch - USA Today
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
Light Shop: mawkish supernatural K-drama of two halves - South China Morning Post
Jerry Lewis deserves better than the mawkish ‘Max Rose’ - Pioneer Press
La Damnation de Faust review – Hawking walks and snails mate in mawkish opera - The Guardian
'Miss You Already' review: Drew Barrymore, Toni Collette melodrama is mawkish but well made - OregonLive.com
White Bird Review: Fantastical but Mawkish Movie Follow-Up to Wonder - MovieWeb
Axis of Tweeville: Mawkish Brit Food Culture V The Glory Of Keith Floyd - The Quietus
Chris Lilley’s Lunatics has deadpan cringe, great dialogue but is more mawkish than outrageous - The Conversation
Collateral Beauty review – mawkish drama - The Guardian
Not even Melissa McCarthy can save mawkish drama The Starling - SMH.com.au
The Hollars review: mawkish John Krasinski comedy feels like long sitcom - The Guardian
Watch: The Crown’s depiction of Princess Diana’s death is intrusive and mawkish | Royal Insight - The Telegraph
Sadvertising: why banking TV ads become more mawkish in a crisis - The Telegraph
The Secret Scripture review – a mawkish slog | Drama films - The Guardian
Fathers and Daughters review – mawkish twaddle meets ripe platitudes - The Guardian
Mawkish Is as Mawkish Does - The Washington Post
‘Here’ Review: Robert Zemeckis' One-Location Drama Is a Mawkish ‘Forrest Gump’ Reunion - TheWrap
Laal Singh Chaddha Review: Forrest Gump, Minus The Mawkishness - SlashFilm
Life Itself: Goopy, mawkish drama that will leave you in tears for all the wrong reasons - The Irish Times
Banksy’s latest artwork peddles a mawkish fantasy about the NHS - The Telegraph
Derek, series 2, episode 1, review: 'more mawkish than ever' - The Telegraph
Film review: Danny Collins - mawkish humour, but oozing goodwill - South China Morning Post
‘Allied’: Suspenseful spy setup bogs down in mawkish melodrama - The Washington Post
'Avatar': 'Do not confuse animal mawkishness with environmental action' - Le Monde.fr
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
'Mr. Morgan's Last Love': Michael Caine Stars in Mawkish Melodrama - Variety
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
Blitz (2024) Movie Review: McQueen’s Mawkish Melodrama Misses the Mark - High On Films
The Sense of an Ending goes mawkish on screen, utterly betraying Julian Barnes - National Post
General fears ‘mawkish’ view of military - The Times
'Pollyanna' cheers everyone up without getting too mawkish - SFGATE
A mawkish tale of acceptance starring John Cusack. - SBS Australia
‘Manchi Rojulochaie’ movie review: A mawkish take on parenthood - The Hindu
Truelove is not your typical mawkish euthanasia drama – review - The Independent
A Dog's Way Home movie review: Easy family watch but for several mawkish, manipulative moments - Firstpost
‘Shakuntala Devi’ movie review: Loud, mawkish and joyful - The Hindu
Jill Kirby: Forget the mawkish ad, life cover is vital for parents - The Times
Dear Maya movie review: Manisha Koirala is the star in this mawkish coming-of-age story - India Today
Edward Scissorhands, review: Matthew Bourne can't catch Tim Burton's magic - the result is a thin, mawkish tale - The Independent
James Corden slammed by Roald Dahl fanatics over ''mawkish'' narration of Esio Trot - The Mirror
Sarbjit review: Aishwarya and Randeep-starrer is a screechy, mawkish melodrama - India Today
Chris Lilley's Lunatics has deadpan cringe, great dialogue but is more mawkish than outrageous - Mumbrella
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
Foreign Language Equivalents
Foreign Language Equivalents of 'mawkish'
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Misspellings - Typos
mwakish,   mswkish,   mawkihs,   ,awkish,   mawkisj,   maawkish,   mawkkish,   mawkis,   mawkidh,   mawkiah,   maqkish,   makish,   mawkush,   mawkishh,   mawkissh,   mawksh,   awkish,   mawkosh,   mawksih,   mawish,   mawkiish,   amwkish,   mwkish,   maekish,   mawjish,   mawkisg,   nawkish,   mmawkish,   mawiksh,   mawkih,   mawlish,   mawwkish,   makwish
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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