mawkish

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Morgan’s flair for the mawkish would be fine, and maybe even interesting, if he didn’t make the mistake of making the country music industry piles and piles of money.

From Salon • May 16, 2025

This dialogue verges on the mawkish: “What does hermaphrodite mean?”

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2023

Meacham’s mawkish binary of history as a fight between our darker impulses and “the better angels of our nature” doesn’t accurately describe the moment we’re in.

From Slate • Mar. 3, 2023

“Hourglass” suffers for its sometimes mawkish language, places where Goddard reaches for earnestness but sounds insincere, or just immature.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2023

Her soliloquies mawkish, her sentiments maudlin, malaise dripped like a fever from her pores.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri