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mawkishness

/maw-kish/US // ˈmɔ kɪʃ //UK // (ˈmɔːkɪʃ) //

悲观主义,悲情,悲情主义,悲哀

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin.
    • : having a mildly sickening flavor; slightly nauseating.

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Examples

  • If you deny them to the latter, all you get is poverty of ideas, and morbidity, and mawkishness.

  • Dickens's sentiment seldom rings perfectly true; too often it is sharped to flippancy, or flatted to mawkishness.

  • His Endymion, 1818, though disfigured by mawkishness and by some affectations of manner, was rich in promise.

  • There were few tears and less mawkishness when the battalions moved out from their home towns on the long trail.

  • The ladies, watching him, seemed by their eyes to condone the mawkishness of the demonstration which had tempted him.