mawkishness

Example Sentences

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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

I do not profess to be a very painstaking lover; nay, if you will, the life would bore me, even if in our case the mawkishness of the delay did not do more than bore.

From The Bertrams by Trollope, Anthony