MAWKISH

a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; disgusting. So sweetly mawkish', and so smoothly dull. Pope.

2.
a.

Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious. J. H. Newman.


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