mawkish

• maukish (obsolete)

From mawk +‎ -ish.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔːkɪʃ/
• (cot–caught merger, NCVS, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːkɪʃ/

mawkish (comparative more mawkish, superlative most mawkish)

1. (archaic or dialectal) Feeling sick, queasy.
2. (archaic) Sickening or insipid in taste or smell.
3. Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment; maudlin.
   • 2014 August 11, w:Dave Itzkoff, "Robin Williams, Oscar-Winning Comedian, Dies at 63 in Suspected Suicide," New York Times

     Some of Mr. Williams’s performances were criticized for a mawkish sentimentality, like “Patch Adams,” a 1998 film that once again cast him as a good-hearted doctor, and “Bicentennial Man,” a 1999 science-fiction feature in which he played an android.

• (excessively or falsely sentimental): cutesy, schmaltzy

• (excessively or falsely sentimental): rational

• hawkism