mawkish

Example Sentences

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In the middle of the night … I’m still haunted by this mawkish pileup of gospel signifiers.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 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

If that leaves you expecting mawkish sentiment and introspective wallowing, you've not been paying attention.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2025

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