词为我用 - mawkish

词汇释义

mawkish  TEM8  GRE

UK  /ˈmɔː.kɪʃ/ US  /ˈmɑː.kɪʃ/

adj, You can describe something as mawkish when you think it is sentimental and silly.事情多愁善感的，可笑的

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外刊例句

1. Directed by David Fincher and written by his late father Jack, this film is nostalgic but not mawkish, reverent but not blind.(Seattle Times)

2. If indie bands of the noughties were lamentable in their mawkish, self-aggrandising sentimentality, then both Fat White Family and Idles should be recognised for their efforts to connect to something bigger.(The Guardian)

3. To the dominant Democrats—the Clinton and Obama circles—he was too mawkish with the Scranton Joe routine, too transparent in his ambition.”(Fox News)

4. These days especially, there is no mawkish reverence requiring a rigorous counterbalance.(The Guardian)

5. I waited for an intrepid manhunt, a plea for the nation’s cooperation, mawkish depictions of the victims.(Washington Post)

6. On August 17th Lee Hsien Loong, the prime minister and son of modern Singapore’s founding father, Lee Kuan Yew, delivered his 11th such speech in his genial, if slightly mawkish, style.(TheEconomist)

7. It is also about the arrogance, ambition, cold-heartedness and mawkish sentimentality of the humans who ostensibly cared for him.(Scientific American)

8. Alongside the history of US politics is a mawkish history of Americans sending letters, making phone calls, signing petitions, and submitting online forms.(The Verge)

9. Continuing to produce Macs isn’t about nostalgia or some mawkish lament of abandoning a connection to the past.(Forbes)

10. Heffernan, who worships at the figurative altar of the Old Masters, continues to strike me as a little mawkish, but her chops are undeniable.(The New Yorker)

11. Even in reruns, Mr. Joel remains divisive; nearly every year, someone writes a high-blood-pressure jeremiad, denouncing his music as derivative and mawkish.(New York Times)

12. He died Dec. 5, 1791, less than two months before his 36th birthday, and the mawkish hooey began immediately.(Los Angeles Times)

词汇搭配

feel, seem, sound mawkish | mawkish movie, title, story, solution, treatment

词汇家族

mawkishly, mawkishness

词汇来源

1660s, "sickly, nauseated" (a sense now obsolete), from Middle English mawke "maggot" (early 15c.; see maggot), but the literal sense of "maggoty" is not found. Figurative meaning "sickeningly sentimental, insipid" is recorded by 1702.

近义词

sentimental, corny, sloppy, soppy, cheesy, emotional, mushy, sickly,  sappy, gushy, overemotional, romantic, sticky, feeble

反义词

unsentimental, calm, rational, serious, unemotional, impassive,  cynical, restrained, undemonstrative, unfeeling, emotionless, indifferent, reserved, affectless, unmoved, inexpressive

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