Read full poem →What had I on earth to do
With the slothful, with the mawkish, the unmanly?
Like the aimless, helpless, hopeless, did I drivel
Dictionary Entry
Feeling sick, queasy.
Origin
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Common Phrases
sentimentality mawkish. mawkishsentiment mawkishsensibility mawkishtaste mawkishsentimentalism mawkishmawkish rather
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Poetry examples for “mawkish”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.