Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Mawkish

Mawkish , adjective

[Orig., maggoty. See Mawk.]

1.
Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; slightly nauseating; disgusting.
So sweetly mawkish', and so smoothly dull. — Pope
2.
Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious. — J. H. Newman
3.
Weakly sentimental; maudlin.