What was once sweet has become mawkish, and the once exquisite simile appears little more than an ingenious conceit. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
Professor, "mawkish" doesn't even begin to describe it. From Wordnik.com. [Live-blogging the Oscars.] Reference
Mr. BROWN: It's a very emotional (unintelligible) and not in a kind of mawkish way either. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Years Gone, Jeff Buckley's Voice Lingers] Reference
You have written about this so affectionately and without a hint of the mawkish which is a difficult balance, I find. From Wordnik.com. [People Collection] Reference
"We have come to hold, in a kind of mawkish stupor, that greatness is to be gauged by self-sacrifice. From Wordnik.com. [The Fountainhead]
It is a myth, -- no more, -- a sickening, mawkish tale. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
He wrote her a mawkish letter; read it; and tore it up. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference
It is not necessary to be mawkish to see this as a loss. From Wordnik.com. [The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior] Reference
We ate some, and pronounced them to be but mawkish things. From Wordnik.com. [A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil] Reference
Ruha gagged and pulled away from the potion's mawkish smell. From Wordnik.com. [The Veiled Dragon]
She would consider it mawkish in the extreme whatever I said. From Wordnik.com. [To The Hilt]
A lot of viewers and critics think your profiles are too mawkish. From Wordnik.com. [Rating Nbc's Games] Reference
What a fool, what a weak, mawkish, insipid fool he had made of himself!. From Wordnik.com. [Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles] Reference
Beside them, most of our mawkish English ballads look pale and withered. From Wordnik.com. [Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series] Reference
There is no mawkish sentiment, no lukewarm, semi-religious twaddle, smacking of the. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series] Reference
We want no more of the mawkish of either fearing or catering to the "soldier-vote.". From Wordnik.com. [The Story of The American Legion] Reference
I am not the mawkish type when it comes to reading (lies) but I had a good cry last night. From Wordnik.com. [natinski Diary Entry] Reference
Obviously, a story so infused with grief could easily become mawkish, but Egoyan is no sentimentalist. From Wordnik.com. [The Colors Of Mourning] Reference
And his complex collages sometimes contain little pockets of mawkish sentimentality or prefab imagery. From Wordnik.com. [Cut Out For Greatness] Reference
The place smelt clean, though there was a mawkish air about, possibly from the stuffiness of the sickroom. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets]
It's mawkish — and comically trite — to point out that an incident like this underscores life's fragility. From Wordnik.com. [Loathe Him or Not, Brady Has NY Ties] Reference
We have tasted them, and consider they are mawkish and insipid -- not much better than very poor gooseberries. From Wordnik.com. [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference
The gas escapes rapidly when the pressure is released, the temperature rises, and the beer becomes flat and mawkish. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
So even Lapo Cercamorte became a flabby fool, when he met one in comparison with whom all other women seemed mawkish. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference
The ambassador would be ill at the mawkish sentiment if he were not sure that Turg had dropped the caltrop into a pouch. From Wordnik.com. [Odyssey]
Monica Lewinsky, during her final appearance before the grand jury "" The world requires an end to this mawkish nonsense. From Wordnik.com. [Perspectives] Reference
Away, then, with all the mawkish cant about corrupting the morals and ruining the health of the Chinese by selling them poison!. From Wordnik.com. [Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.] Reference
Mysteries fall in most cases into that mawkish sentimentality by which the man of the people or the barbarian is often detected. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
Him the prom wallflower, declining seconds on Roxy, drinking spiked punch, getting mawkish with the slow grind numbers and the hurt. From Wordnik.com. [The Big Nowhere]
They are not entitled to sympathy, despite the fact that some mawkish Sunday-school books sometimes present the good-hearted burglar. From Wordnik.com. [Oscar the Detective Or, Dudie Dunne, The Exquisite Detective] Reference
Totemic grieving is often controversial and always subjective; one person's gesture of remembrance is another's mawkish trivialisation. From Wordnik.com. [How a clumsy Italian stonemason brought home the sorrows of war] Reference
He bumbles around the house, gangly arms and lips predominating every frame, hulking over the girls in the picture like a mawkish spider. From Wordnik.com. [While on Vacation in Rome] Reference
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