mawkish
adjective
characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin.
mawkishly
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a word derived from
mawkish.
Example Sentences
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But by then it’s too late: when the show finally looks more closely at the women Mitch has messed with, it’s only to exploit their trauma, mawkishly so.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 18, 2019
Shockingly contrived for such a short picture, “Say My Name” implodes further into its artistic mediocrity due to a mawkishly unnecessary subplot that materializes near the end of its final act.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2019
But otherwise the politics here are interpersonal, existential and often contradictory: Ranevskaya can be mawkishly sentimental and brutally candid in nearly the same breath.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2017
The novel I regard as brilliant never quite wins the audience I feel it deserves, while the one I wave away as mawkishly overwritten strikes the reading public as wonderful.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2016
He could not help being amused; Rachael had become so mawkishly morose.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
