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Significados de mawkishness en inglés

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Falsely emotional in a maudlin way.

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Insincere pathos.

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Uso de mawkishness en inglés
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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...
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He was fundamentally normal-fundamentallywholesome-withno trace of mawkishness in his nature.
The Seventh Noon
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His songs were positive and profound and often romantic without mawkishness.
The Irish Times
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It tells a very sweet story without ever straying into mawkishness or sickliness.
The Guardian
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And wedging it into a Christmas context of peace and harmony risks mawkishness.
The Irish Times
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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...
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GLASVEGAS Flowers and Football Tops Columbia★★ More shameless mawkishness from the dour Scottish rockers.
The Irish Times
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Least mutable of all, the hero swaggered on, virtuous without mawkishness, pugnacious without brutality.
Without Prejudice
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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
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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
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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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