mawkishness
Example Sentences
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I thought it could fall into mawkishness, and I was a little concerned each time I turned the page.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025
The Alcott verses, with their references to “Christmas fairies” and “chanting cherubs,” supply most of the mawkishness.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2017
But where the execution of those storylines has garnered some criticism for moments of mawkishness or overwrought dialogue, it’s more successful in its honest depiction of cancer—or, at least, one specific cancer story.
From Time ● Nov. 10, 2015
After a tragedy “Parked” collapses into sentimentality that not even an actor of Mr. Meaney’s dignity and restraint can redeem from mawkishness.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2012
He had wit, originality, and pathos, though the last not seldom runs into mawkishness, and an exquisitely delicate and glancing style.
From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. (John William) Cousin
