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Mawkish Maw Kish Adjective Nauseating Sickly Sentimental I Jump

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(MAW-kish), adjective

Nauseating and sickly sentimental.

“I would jump down Etna for any public good—but I hate a MAWKISH popularity.” – John Keats, English Romantic poet

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