Word · Frequency #35860
mawkish
矫揉造作的；假惺惺感伤的
excessively sentimental in an insincere or affected way
含贬义，指情感表达过度或虚伪，与‘淡而无味’无关。
- 1.
Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment.
过于或虚假的多愁善感；表现出病态的过度情感
过于或虚假的多愁善感；表现出病态的过度情感；淡而无味的；令人作呕的；感伤的
In use
The film's mawkish ending made me feel uncomfortable.
She found his mawkish apologies more annoying than sincere.
He turned off the TV, tired of the mawkish talk show.
be mawkish
用于描述事物过度矫情或伤感。
The movie's ending was too mawkish for my taste.
这部电影的结局过于感伤，不合我的口味。
mawkish + noun
mawkish 修饰名词，强调某物带有令人不适的伤感。
She dismissed the poem as mawkish sentimentality.
她认为这首诗是矫揉造作的感伤之作。
find sth mawkish
用于表达个人对某物矫情程度的看法。
Many readers find his novels mawkish and predictable.
许多读者觉得他的小说矫情且缺乏新意。
Common mistakes
This dish is mawkish.This dish is bland.
中文释义中“淡而无味”导致误以为mawkish可描述食物，但实际上英语中mawkish仅用于情感，形容食物应使用bland或insipid。
The movie had too much mawkish.The movie had too much mawkishness.
mawkish是形容词，不可直接作名词使用；应改为名词形式mawkishness。
Connections
Confusing words
- maudlin
- 感情脆弱的；伤感的 · mawkish 侧重于虚伪或令人作呕的伤感，而 maudlin 更强调因醉酒或悲伤而流泪的脆弱伤感
- saccharine
- 过分甜蜜的；腻人的 · mawkish 偏向于虚伪或令人作呕的情感表达，而 saccharine 则强调像糖一样过分甜腻，常形容故事或语调
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.