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Meanings of mawkishness in English

Catalan
sensibleria
Spanish
superficialidad

Falsely emotional in a maudlin way.

sensibleria
Spanish
sensiblería

Insincere pathos.

sensiblería
Usage of mawkishness in English
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Nor is there any mawkishness or cheap surface sentimentality in it all.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
2
He was fundamentally normal-fundamentallywholesome-withno trace of mawkishness in his nature.
The Seventh Noon
3
His songs were positive and profound and often romantic without mawkishness.
The Irish Times
4
It tells a very sweet story without ever straying into mawkishness or sickliness.
The Guardian
5
And wedging it into a Christmas context of peace and harmony risks mawkishness.
The Irish Times
6
I would be the last to want such mush and mawkishness.
Blood and Bone
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The mawkishness of the sentiment was only surpassed by the feebleness of the style.
A Book for All Readers / An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Pres...
8
GLASVEGAS Flowers and Football Tops Columbia★★ More shameless mawkishness from the dour Scottish rockers.
The Irish Times
9
Least mutable of all, the hero swaggered on, virtuous without mawkishness, pugnacious without brutality.
Without Prejudice
10
When animals must obey, they must-that'sall, and no mawkishness!
The Last of the Plainsmen
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There is no suggestion of mawkishness in his discourse.
The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
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Richard knew no mawkishness on the score of eavesdropping.
Mistress Wilding
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The farewells had to be gone through, with dignity and if possible with elan, but without mawkishness.
A journey: my political life
14
In such a shape the patriotic instinct may tend in natures weaker than Bolingbroke's to mawkishness or sentimentality.
Shakespeare and the Modern Stage; with Other Essays
15
If you deny them to the latter, all you get is poverty of ideas, and morbidity, and mawkishness.
Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. of Trinity College, Cambridge ...
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The ladies, watching him, seemed by their eyes to condone the mawkishness of the demonstration which had tempted him.
The Market-Place
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