{
  "mawkishness":{
    "the state or quality of having an excess of tender feelings (as of love, nostalgia, or compassion)":{
      "examples":[
        "the grating mawkishness of her poetry makes me want to stamp on wildflowers"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "bathos",
        "gooeyness",
        "lovey-doveyness",
        "mush",
        "mushiness",
        "saccharinity",
        "sappiness",
        "sentimentalism",
        "sentimentality",
        "sloppiness",
        "soppiness",
        "syrup",
        "sirup"
      ],
      "near synonyms":[
        "emotion",
        "sentiment",
        "corn",
        "corniness",
        "hokeyness",
        "hokiness",
        "schmaltz",
        "schmalz"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "cynicism",
        "hardheadedness",
        "hard-heartedness"
      ],
      "antonyms":[]
    },
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "mawkish":{
    "appealing to the emotions in an obvious and tiresome way":{
      "examples":[
        "a mawkish plea for donations to the charity"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "chocolate-box",
        "cloying",
        "corny",
        "drippy",
        "fruity",
        "gooey",
        "lovey-dovey",
        "maudlin",
        "mushy",
        "novelettish",
        "saccharine",
        "sappy",
        "schmaltzy",
        "sentimental",
        "sloppy",
        "slushy",
        "soppy",
        "soupy",
        "spoony",
        "spooney",
        "sticky",
        "sugarcoated",
        "sugary",
        "wet"
      ],
      "near synonyms":[
        "dreamy",
        "misty-eyed",
        "moonstruck",
        "moony",
        "nostalgic",
        "starry-eyed",
        "feel-good",
        "fuzzy",
        "melodramatic",
        "soap-operatic",
        "soapy",
        "sudsy",
        "flat",
        "insipid",
        "soft-boiled",
        "tasteless",
        "vapid",
        "watery",
        "cutesy",
        "twee"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "unadulterated",
        "unvarnished",
        "antisentimental",
        "cynical",
        "hard-boiled",
        "hard-edged",
        "hardheaded"
      ],
      "antonyms":[
        "unsentimental"
      ]
    },
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "maw":{
    "the mouth, jaws, or throat of an animal":{
      "examples":[
        "the gaping maw of the tiger"
      ],
      "synonyms":[],
      "near synonyms":[
        "gullet",
        "cakehole",
        "chops",
        "gob",
        "kisser",
        "mouth",
        "mug",
        "piehole",
        "trap",
        "yap",
        "muzzle",
        "jaws",
        "mandible",
        "maxilla"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "antonyms":[]
    },
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "maws":{
    "the mouth, jaws, or throat of an animal":{
      "examples":[
        "the gaping maw of the tiger"
      ],
      "synonyms":[],
      "near synonyms":[
        "gullets",
        "cakeholes",
        "chops",
        "gobs",
        "kissers",
        "mouths",
        "mugs",
        "pieholes",
        "pie holes",
        "traps",
        "yaps",
        "muzzles",
        "jaws",
        "mandibles",
        "maxillae",
        "maxillas"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "antonyms":[]
    },
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  }
}