mawkish in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for mawkish in the English»French Dictionary

mawkish [Brit ˈmɔːkɪʃ, Am ˈmɔkɪʃ] ADJ pej

1. mawkish (sentimental):

mawkish

mièvre

2. mawkish (insipid):

mawkish

fade

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mawkish in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for mawkish in the English»French Dictionary

mawkish [ˈmɔ:kɪʃ, Am ˈmɑ:-] ADJ

mawkish

extravagant(e)

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mièvre sourire

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English

The writing is never mawkish, and the two leads are so good they almost make you forget you've seen this story a hundred times before.

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A bit mawkish and effusive too at times, you might say.

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Early in his life he wrote a fair amount of idealistic but mawkish poetry about boy martyrs and the like.

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It's an emotional rollercoaster but never veers into overly mawkish sentiments.

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The characters are idealized, the love stories mawkish and clichd, the emotions meant to ground the scientific speculations in lived experience announced rather than established.

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At best, you could say it's unnecessary; at worst, mawkish karaoke.

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He has nothing in his corner at all -- it is an argument based in a mawkish nostalgia for kinder days, not fact.

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But it all seems too forced, too easy, too mawkish.

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I find the portrayal of such tragedy to the vulnerable teenager mawkish, reprehensible and even dangerous.

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Knowing, as he does, the dark truth, they still mean to go aheadand even fake a great dealwith a monstrously mawkish memorial program.

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