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Перевод: mawkish

[прилагательное]
противный на вкус; приторный; слащавый; слезливый; сентиментальный

Тезаурус:

1. He had become too cloying in his affections, his talk as saccharine as the dialogue from the Christmas classics on the television, his every gaze mawkish.
2. It was her first solo foreign trip representing the royal family and she returned home to praise from the public for her dignified manner at the highly charged and at times mawkish funeral service.
3. This is not as mawkish as it sounds largely due to some fine acting but Elenya is ultimately too slow and lacking in true tension and surprise to make it as special as its juvenile lead.
4. He remembered in particular a long and mawkish poem he had written when his father died: an attempt to create emotions that hadn't existed.
5. Here we're about to get mawkish.
6. He can combine tenderness and humour without becoming mawkish.
7. The Australian chart is stuffed full of Brits - Big Audio Dynamite, Kate Bush, the KLF, Genesis, Vic Reeves and the Wonder Stuff are all in the top twenty, while the mawkish Saltwater by Julian Lennon is number one down under.
8. Something had certainly gone wrong - gone soft and mawkish - with the English tradition of the amateur, when we find Hewlett on facing pages of Binyon's volume of Letters , writing in 1916 to E.V.
9. One review of "The Leavetaking" suggested that the idyllic love scenes between the American woman and the narrator were "mawkish".
10. Better the weary smell of minced beef and boiled cabbage than the acrid stench of Virginian cigarettes, the mawkish smell of warm beer, and whisky and petrol fumes.
11. You will be utterly ashamed of the mawkish, sentimental way you have been handling it.
12. Earlier Romantic interests in dream, haunting and death were revivified by Odilon Redon's lithographs and drawings and transposed into a mawkish fascination with human decollation and disembodiment (a prescient subject of much Surrealist interest later), witness perhaps of his desire to escape from the strictures of the body where only material limitation and disease existed - the concerns of eschatology, sexuality and mysticism certainly haunted Redon as they do so much Symbolist thought.
13. If we are not yet ready for such a grave ceremony, sooner or later we will be; and if anyone thinks it macabre or mawkish, let them first read Derek Humphry's moving account in his book Jean's Way of how, when his wife had entered the terminal stage of bone cancer, he and she sat together over coffee and she took the pill which, with her full approval, he had obtained and kept safe for the occasion, and how she died peacefully in his arms.