Falsely emotional in a maudlin way.
1 Nor is there any mawkishness or cheap surface sentimentality in it all.
2 He was fundamentally normal-fundamentallywholesome-withno trace of mawkishness in his nature.
3 His songs were positive and profound and often romantic without mawkishness .
4 It tells a very sweet story without ever straying into mawkishness or sickliness.
5 And wedging it into a Christmas context of peace and harmony risks mawkishness .
6 I would be the last to want such mush and mawkishness .
7 The mawkishness of the sentiment was only surpassed by the feebleness of the style.
8 GLASVEGAS Flowers and Football Tops Columbia★★ More shameless mawkishness from the dour Scottish rockers.
9 Least mutable of all, the hero swaggered on, virtuous without mawkishness , pugnacious without brutality.
10 When animals must obey, they must-that'sall, and no mawkishness !
11 There is no suggestion of mawkishness in his discourse.
12 Richard knew no mawkishness on the score of eavesdropping.
13 The farewells had to be gone through, with dignity and if possible with elan, but without mawkishness .
14 In such a shape the patriotic instinct may tend in natures weaker than Bolingbroke's to mawkishness or sentimentality.
15 If you deny them to the latter, all you get is poverty of ideas, and morbidity, and mawkishness .
16 The ladies, watching him, seemed by their eyes to condone the mawkishness of the demonstration which had tempted him.
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