The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SAPPY which also is the latest solution we found used in Wall Street Journal in 2021.
Mawkish crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SAPPY | 31 % | 5 |
| CORNY | 9 % | 5 |
| SOPPY | 9 % | 5 |
| SYRUPY | 9 % | 6 |
| GOOPY | 6 % | 5 |
| HOKEY | 6 % | 5 |
| MAUDLIN | 6 % | 7 |
| MUSHY | 3 % | 5 |
| CORNBALL | 3 % | 8 |
| TEARY | 3 % | 5 |
| BATHETIC | 3 % | 8 |
| VAPID | 3 % | 5 |
| CLOYING | 3 % | 7 |
| SENTIMENTAL | 3 % | 11 |
| GOOEY | 3 % | 5 |
| DRIPPY | 3 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Mawkish
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- schmaltzy
- sentimental
- emotional
- bathetic
- mushy
- slushy
- maudlin
- schmalzy
- sentimentality
- cloying
- hokey
- treacly
Crossword Answer definitions
SAPPY adjective- Excessively sweet, emotional, nostalgic; cheesy; mushy. (British equivalent: soppy)
- Having (a particularly large amount of) sap.
- Juicy.
- (of wood) Spongy; Having spaces in which large quantities of sap can flow.
- Musty; tainted; rancid.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result SAPPY
- Too sentimental
- Empty-headed
- Way sentimental
- Foolishly sentimental
- Mawkish
- Overly sentimental
- Like chick flicks, stereotypically
- Patently sentimental
- Maudlin
- Like silly fools or maple trees
More clues leading to the result CORNY
- Like many an old joke
- Tiresomely unsubtle
- Cliché-ridden
- Trite and mawkish
- Trite, joke-wise
- Too earnest and old-school
- Unsophisticated
- Mawkishly sentimental
- Predictable, as humor goes
- Lacking subtlety
More clues leading to the result SOPPY
More clues leading to the result SYRUPY
- Cloyingly sweet
- Like treacle
- Overly sentimental
- Cloying
- Overdone
- Like molasses
- Overly sweet
- Overly sentimental.
- Viscous.
- Oversentimental
More clues leading to the result GOOPY
More clues leading to the result HOKEY
More clues leading to the result MAUDLIN
- Schmaltzy
- Foolishly sentimental
- Mawkish
- Sentimental
- Sadly sentimental
- Tearjerking
- Effusively sentimental.
- Mawkish.
- Overly sentimental
- Tearfully emotional
More clues leading to the result MUSHY
- Schmaltzy
- Mawkishly amorous
- Like banana pudding
- Romantic, to kids
- Overly sentimental
- Like a tearjerker
- Like some love letters
- Beyond romantic
- Oozing schmaltz
- Overly emotional
More clues leading to the result CORNBALL
More clues leading to the result TEARY
- Like a happy ending, perhaps?
- Weeping
- Emotional
- All choked up
- About to burst?
- Choked up
- Verklempt
- Obviously distraught
- Maudlin
- Visibly upset
More clues leading to the result BATHETIC
More clues leading to the result VAPID
More clues leading to the result CLOYING
More clues leading to the result SENTIMENTAL
More clues leading to the result GOOEY
- Like a s'more
- Like some chocolate-chip cookies
- Viscid
- Like molasses
- Like roasted marshmallows
- Like hot tar
- Sticky
- Overly sentimental
- Like fudge
- Like honey