| 词汇 | mawkishness |
| 释义 | mawkishness noun[ U ] disapprovinguk /ˈmɔː.kɪʃ.nəs/ us /ˈmɑː.kɪʃ.nəs/ the quality of showing emotion or love in an awkward or silly way: 无病呻吟;多愁善感 For me, the most important quality of the novel is that it escapes mawkishness, sentimentality, and cliches.对我来说，这部小说最重要的特点是它避免了无病呻吟、多愁善感和落入俗套。 He always keeps the story under tight control, never allowing it to descend into melodrama or mawkishness.他总是严格控制故事情节，从不让它变得情节夸张或多愁善感。 See mawkish The film is praised for avoiding the moralizing mawkishness of the typical British working-class drama. The point was to criticize the culture of mawkishness and sentimentality in this country. Mawkishness is kept to a minimum in this brisk, thoughtful production. 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 |
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