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Textual thesaurus for "mawkish"

(adj) bathetic, hokey, mushy, maudlin, kitschy, soppy, soupy, slushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, drippy

effusively or insincerely emotional

a bathetic novel; maudlin expressions of sympathy; mushy effusiveness; a schmaltzy song; sentimental soap operas; slushy poetry