Hokey vs Mawkish - What's the difference?
hokey | mawkish |
(US, colloquial) phony, as if a hoax; noticeably contrived; of obviously flimsy credibility or quality
* When asked for his book report, Chad came up a series of hokier''' and '''hokier excuses, until he finally admitted that he hadn’t done it at all.
* I thought the bargain-priced windshield wiper blades were a little hokey when I saw their cheap packaging, but when they flew off the end of the wiper during a rainstorm, I knew for sure.
(US, colloquial) corny; overly or unbelievably sentimental
* Terry hated going to the cinema with Pat, as Pat always chose hokey romantic comedies that made Terry want to gag.
Feeling sick, queasy.
(archaic) Sickening or insipid in taste or smell.
Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment.
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As adjectives the difference between hokey and mawkish
is that hokey is phony, as if a hoax; noticeably contrived; of obviously flimsy credibility or quality while mawkish is feeling sick, queasy.hokey
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Alternative forms
* hokie, hoaky, hokyAdjective
(er)Synonyms
* (fake) phony * (sentimental) cheesy, corny, kitschySee also
* hokey-cokey * hokey-pokey * hokeypokey * hokey-tokeymawkish
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Alternative forms
* maukish (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)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.
