mawkish
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Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, jailed and banned frequently, has never allowed his work get mawkish.
From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2025
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
Her soliloquies mawkish, her sentiments maudlin, malaise dripped like a fever from her pores.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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