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Mawkish
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
1. Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; disgusting. So sweetly mawkish', and so smoothly dull. Pope.
2. Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious. J. H. Newman.