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 |
| SOPPY | 9 % | 5 |
| SYRUPY | 9 % | 6 |
| CORNY | 9 % | 5 |
| HOKEY | 6 % | 5 |
| MAUDLIN | 6 % | 7 |
| GOOPY | 6 % | 5 |
| SENTIMENTAL | 3 % | 11 |
| GOOEY | 3 % | 5 |
| DRIPPY | 3 % | 6 |
| MUSHY | 3 % | 5 |
| CORNBALL | 3 % | 8 |
| TEARY | 3 % | 5 |
| BATHETIC | 3 % | 8 |
| VAPID | 3 % | 5 |
| CLOYING | 3 % | 7 |
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 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 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 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 GOOPY
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
More clues leading to the result DRIPPY
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