| 词汇 | mawkish |
| 释义 | mawkish adjective uk /ˈmɔː.kɪʃ/ us /ˈmɑː.kɪʃ/ showing emotion or love in an awkward or silly way: 无病呻吟的；多愁善感的 The film lapses into mawkish sentimentality near the end.电影到结局部分成了令人生厌的滥情戏。 Synonyms drippyinformaldisapproving hokeyUSinformal maudlin mushy sentimental slushy soppyinformaldisapproving Sentimental and over-emotional cloying cloyingly gauzily gushily gushy mush mushily mushy sappiness sappy sentimentalist sentimentality sick-making sloppily sloppiness slushy syrupy treacly twee tweeness Related wordsmawkishly mawkishness Examples of mawkishmawkish I shall try to resist that temptation, because emotionalism can become mawkish and, indeed, embarrassing when indulged in to that extent. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He said that we should not be mawkish. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All of the literature, the television shows, the displays and the discussions that have emerged since the war display a mawkish introspection and an exculpatory quality. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They can be profoundly moving without ever becoming mawkish. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The characters are idealized, the love stories mawkish and clichd, the emotions meant to ground the scientific speculations in lived experience announced rather than established. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Early in his life he wrote a fair amount of idealistic but mawkish poetry about boy martyrs and the like. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Such book reviews achieved for the novel a certain notoriety for being mawkish and nauseous, unclean, effeminate and contaminating. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The story is profoundly affecting but never melodramatic; moving but never mawkish; clever but never cliched. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Knowing, as he does, the dark truth, they still mean to go aheadand even fake a great dealwith a monstrously mawkish memorial program. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The time has gone when females were pleased with drivelling flattery, and smiled in approbation at mawkish sonnets to their beauty and charms... From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. There is no work is the curse of the drinking classes morality here, no mawkish sentimentality. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It is rather a mawkish lamentation upon the hopelessness of love between an art-dedicated violinist and a high-toned lady who lives for self alone.... From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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