mawkish

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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

Not to be mawkish, but one of the things I like about the show is that if I saw it when I was 18, I think I would’ve enjoyed it.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2024

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

The Cabarets plywood-paneled walls are hung with deer antlers, Old Milwaukee beer promos, and mawkish paintings of game birds taking flight.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer