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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 mawk·ish /ˈmɔkɪʃ/
 (a.)氣味不佳的,令人作嘔的,感傷的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Mawk·ish, a.
 1. Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; slightly nauseating; disgusting.
    So sweetly mawkish', and so smoothly dull.   --Pope.
 2. Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 mawkish
      adj : effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel";
            "maudlin expressons of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness";
            "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy
            poetry" [syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin,
             mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy]