mawkish

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: adjective

(disapproving) expressing or sharing emotion in a way that is exaggerated or embarrassing: a mawkish poem mawkishness noun [U]

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

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mawkishEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary mawkishEnglish›UyghurMain Dictionary mawkishEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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