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Soppy vs Mawkish - What's the difference?

soppy | mawkish |

As adjectives the difference between soppy and mawkish

is that soppy is very wet; sodden, soaked while mawkish is feeling sick, queasy.

soppy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Very wet; sodden, soaked
  • sentimental, maudlin, bathetic
  • (informal) schmaltzy

    • Anagrams

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    mawkish

    English

    Alternative forms

    * maukish (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Feeling sick, queasy.
  • (archaic) Sickening or insipid in taste or smell.
  • Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment.
  • * 2014 August 11, , " 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.

    Antonyms

    * (excessively or falsely sentimental) rational

    Synonyms

    * (excessively or falsely sentimental) cutesy, schmaltzy