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Mawkish
Mawkish meaning
Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment. | Feeling sick, queasy. | Sickening or insipid in taste or smell.
Example sentences (6)
Despite his reputation for mawkish sentiment, the real Capra was no naif.
I don’t want to be too mawkish about it, but it was healing.
Apart from being an annoying delay before a decent game of footy, anthems are crass and bloated expressions of jingoism, glaring hypocrisies and mawkish platitudes.
But politicians do it because most Americans like their politicians to be a bit mawkish, and because part of the job is reaching out to everyone in this expected, overdetermined way.
He tells melodramatic family stories which would seem mawkish if they weren’t so brilliantly observed.
The personages of Pierrot and Columbine are transported into modern-day settings and inserted into an occasionally mawkish or nostalgic love plot with equal doses of laughter mingled with pain and regret.