Mawkish

/ˈmɑːkɪʃ/

Synonyms for "mawkish" (107 found)

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hackneyed romancemawkish prosesaccharine scenesappy paragraphtearjerker

Collocations

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mawkish dialoguemawkish melodramamawkish prosemawkish romancemawkish sentimentmawkish sentimentality

Inflections

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more mawkishmost mawkish

Derivations

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Sample sentences

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Some of Mr. Williams’s performances were criticized for a mawkish sentimentality, like “Patch Adams,” a 1998 film that once again cast him as a good-hearted doctor, and “Bicentennial Man,” a 1999 science-fiction feature in which he played an android.

Source: wiktionary

I found [Christoph] Buchel’s appropriation of the boat in which so many migrants lost their lives a vile and mawkish spectacle in the context of the biennale.

Source: wiktionary

The tabloids branded him James Hewitt forevermore as the “love rat,” and Pasternak was excoriated for peddling mawkish fantasy.

Source: wiktionary

After all, a vague, archaic, mostly harmless tradition fraught with pomp and ceremony and mawkish self-aggrandising with a bit of royalty thrown in is about the most British thing imaginable and would never happen in a boring sensible country like Germany.

Source: wiktionary

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