mawkish

Example Sentences

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The problem is how Fowler goes about it, which is in prose that is alternately sleepy and mawkish.

From New York Times

Paddling, snorkelling, swimming, splashing: it is, without wanting to sound mawkish, a real gift, the sea.

From The Guardian

It could have been mawkish, but it got its levels of sentimentality just right.

From The Guardian

Ban Johnson, the American League president, told Washington Manager Bucky Harris that “your display of mawkish sentiment” caused the Senators to lose, 9-7, to the Pittsburgh Pirates.

From Washington Post

And so much of what concerned me as important in the earlier pages of my diary now seems mawkish, trivial or beneath notice.

From New York Times