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
But the death of a child, generally treated with mawkishness, is handled here with riveting creepiness — not to mention a hint of bad taste.
From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2020
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
The ladies, watching him, seemed by their eyes to condone the mawkishness of the demonstration which had tempted him.
From The Market-Place by Harold Frederic
