Examples of 'mawkish' in a sentence
Meaning of "mawkish"
mawkish (adjective): Mawkish refers to something that is overly sentimental, sappy, or excessively emotional in a way that is insincere or exaggerated
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- Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment.
- Feeling sick, queasy.
- Sickening or insipid in taste or smell.
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At least better than the mawkish sentimentality.
The staging of this can only be described as mawkish.
And then like mawkish humans became attached to it.
Only the old woman so mawkish.
There is nothing mawkish or cheap here.
They can be profoundly moving without ever becoming mawkish.
He was not a mawkish old woman.
He forbid me He said it was mawkish.
It is not mawkish or sentimental or commonplace.
So we need not get mawkish.
Than that mawkish schoolboy.
You must think me mawkish.
Not a mawkish old woman.
Apparently the judges are rather tempted by that kind of mawkish sentimentality.
You are talking mawkish nonsense you remember from cheap films.
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He said it was mawkish.
You are talking mawkish nonsense you remembered from cheap films.
You think I spared Marcel out of some mawkish sentimentality.
It is mawkish and dreary.
Oh, it was just in case things turned mawkish.
And he would have hated any mawkish outpourings of grief.
This mawkish tomfoolery of disrespectful tripe!
He had a mawkish side.
In fact, your arrival is a blessed relief from this mawkish display.
Erik was so mawkish as a child.
The pictures were thrown in by the decorator . He had a mawkish side.
I believe their mawkish view on unification and North Korea caused this tragedy.
He tells melodramatic family stories which would seem mawkish if they were not so brilliantly observed.
The death of a child belonged to a different realm-that of a Greek tragedy or a mawkish movie.
And then like mawkish humans, they became attached to it.
He hesitated, did not attack frankly, wasted time in mawkish and affected phrases.
I find your sense of humor mawkish and your personality boorish, to say the least.
Mostly as a delivery apparatus for hackneyed punchlines and mawkish sentimentality, but still.
You mouth mawkish platitudes and I confess?
His mother, Christine de Chasteigner, is a translator of mawkish novels Barbara Cartland et al.
Is she mawkish with their children?
You think I spared Marcel out of some mawkish sentimentality . Remember that.
Oh, it 's just in case things turned mawkish.
But I, being unencumbered by something so mawkish as a romantic attachment, will end him.
Chopin was emotional, but not mawkish.
Mawkish or not, he 's completely devoted to me.
Yes, but his art is mawkish.
This mawkish music is insufferable!
It 's too late to get mawkish.
It's unadulterated, mawkish sentiment… while people are dying needlessly on the highway.
Schubert was emotional, not mawkish.
Some find it mawkish and old-fashioned, a vestige of the team's corny past.
Sorry, this is really mawkish.
Not to the moon, that pale, mawkish stone for tearful, Sodomite clowns.
At the same time, he is a bit flattered, touched and enormously mawkish.
