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Meanings of mawkish in English

Effusively or insincerely emotional.

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Usage of mawkish in English
1
He wrote her a mawkish letter; read it; and tore it up.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 / A Magazi...
2
Given the pair's songwriting proclivities, one might have expected something unspeakably mawkish.
The Irish Times
3
Now here's where the case gets both real interesting and real mawkish.
Secret Sanction
4
Cue that dreadful, mawkish Saturday Night Live Hallelujah thing with Kate McKinnon.
The Irish Times
5
A mawkish regard for delicacy might have kept this disclosure to yourself.
Condensed Novels
6
So again at his first meeting with Elizabeth, Carlos is distressingly mawkish.
The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
7
After travelling abroad, life at a summer villa seems a little mawkish.
Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends
8
Suspicion, hate, tyranny, fear, mawkish sentimentality, mad desire, were in the air.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 / Little J...
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The emotional pallet is oversimplified, conveyed with gaunt puppets and mawkish music.
The Irish Times
10
Sometimes these tributes to the theatrical dead can seem mawkish and overblown.
The Guardian
11
Right-wingers called it 'mawkish sentimentality' but I think it's the opposite.
The Guardian
12
I think about it all the time, but not in a mawkish way.
The Guardian
13
I think the society of women and children very mawkish for a continuance.
Yr Ynys Unyg / The Lonely Island
14
He had read enough of the mawkish lines to be sure of that.
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15
He hesitated, did not attack frankly, wasted time in mawkish and affected phrases.
The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsene Lupin
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So does he not share the film's judgment on mawkish sentimentality?
The Guardian
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