mawkish

IPA: mˈɔkɪʃ

Examples of "mawkish" in Sentences

Professor, "mawkish" doesn't even begin to describe it.
Mr. BROWN: It's a very emotional (unintelligible) and not in a kind of mawkish way either.
I hope that that song doesn't sound too much like that kind of mawkish Christian rock song.
You have written about this so affectionately and without a hint of the mawkish which is a difficult balance, I find.
This book, small and easily digested, stopping just short of the maudlin and the mawkish, is on the whole sincere, sentimental, and skillful.
Even its detractors, one of whom called the book "mawkish" and poorly written, conceded the book has had an enormous influence, and it did so by virtue of its sincerity.
There's another trope that pops up with some frequency to do the same work, only instead of focusing on the trauma experienced by individual soldiers, it peddles a kind of mawkish brotherhood-between-soldiers as the greater moral good in war.