mawkish

If you deny them to the latter, all you get is poverty of ideas, and morbidity, and mawkishness.

Dickens's sentiment seldom rings perfectly true; too often it is sharped to flippancy, or flatted to mawkishness.

His Endymion, 1818, though disfigured by mawkishness and by some affectations of manner, was rich in promise.

There were few tears and less mawkishness when the battalions moved out from their home towns on the long trail.