mawkishness
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
I thought it could fall into mawkishness, and I was a little concerned each time I turned the page.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025
Of course, as a Briton, I am aware of the narrow line, often overstepped, between whimsy and mawkishness.
From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2022
The Alcott verses, with their references to “Christmas fairies” and “chanting cherubs,” supply most of the mawkishness.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2017
But where the execution of those storylines has garnered some criticism for moments of mawkishness or overwrought dialogue, it’s more successful in its honest depiction of cancer—or, at least, one specific cancer story.
From Time ● Nov. 10, 2015
In treating such a theme as friendship, the worst dangers are hardness and levity on the one extreme, exaggeration and mawkishness on the other, and cowardice and squeamishness between.
From The Friendships of Women by William Rounseville Alger
