mawkish sentence examples

• Mawkish sentimentality.
• She is unsentimental, unpretentious, never mawkish, never the slightest bit swamped with self-pity, nor ever less than clear.
• What was once sweet has become mawkish, and the once exquisite simile appears little more than an ingenious conceit.
• Mawkish teenage sentiment really had me on edge.
• It was sentimental, moving, yet not mawkish.
• Let's not get mawkish here, suffice to say that life has been kind to me in an absent-minded ' who's he?
• Mawkish memories back into their long-closed file.
• Pretty much all of the program was embarrassing now, and not just the occasionally mawkish serious bits.
• Mawkish political speeches.

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