Malinger vs Mawkish - What's the difference?
malinger | mawkish |
To feign illness, injury, or incapacitation in order to avoid work or obligation.
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 a verb malinger
is to feign illness, injury, or incapacitation in order to avoid work or obligation.As an adjective mawkish is
feeling sick, queasy.malinger
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Verb
(en verb)- It is not uncommon on exam days for several students to malinger rather than prepare themselves.
Hypernyms
* goldbrick (dated) * shirkAnagrams
* *mawkish
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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.