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

But the death of a child, generally treated with mawkishness, is handled here with riveting creepiness — not to mention a hint of bad taste.

From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2020

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

Dickens's sentiment seldom rings perfectly true; too often it is sharped to flippancy, or flatted to mawkishness.

From Washington Irving by Boynton, Henry Walcott