mawkish

About 0.10 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment.
2. adjective Feeling sick, queasy.
3. adjective Sickening or insipid in taste or smell.

Similar words

schmaltzy sentimental emotional bathetic mushy slushy maudlin schmalzy sentimentality cloying

Often followed by

and sentimentality sentiment or in sensibility taste sentimentalism about

Word family

mawkishly mawkishness mawkishnesses