English Dictionary

mawkish

/ˈmɔːkɪʃ/

adj

Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment. / (archaic or dialectal) Feeling sick, queasy. / (archaic) Sickening or insipid in taste or smell.

The movie was so mawkish that it made me cringe.

意味（1）

Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment.

Some of Mr. Williams’s performances were criticized for a mawkish sentimentality, like “Patch Adams,” a 1998 film that once again cast him as a good-hearted doctor, and “Bicentennial Man,” a 1999 science-fiction feature in which he played an android.

意味（2）

(archaic or dialectal) Feeling sick, queasy.

意味（3）

(archaic) Sickening or insipid in taste or smell.