adjective. characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin. having a mildly sickening flavor; slightly nauseating.

What is the word mawkish mean?

1 : lacking flavor or having an unpleasant taste. 2 : exaggeratedly or childishly emotional a mawkish love story mawkish poetry.

Can a person be mawkish?

Mawkish means excessively sentimental or so sappy it's sickening. ... Oddly enough, it's rooted in the Middle English word maggot and originally meant “sickly or nauseated.” But mawkish eventually evolved to mean something so overly sentimental it makes you sick.