The violinist played that piece mawkishly. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
“And it isnot mawkishly sentimental,” Tossie said to Baine. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
His face was red, and his nose was crimson; his eyes were moist, and mawkishly sweet. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers Karamazov] Reference
The succulent covering of the fruit is soft and slimy, mawkishly sweet, and mucilaginous. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
The mawkishly sweet scents of the grass and flowers were heavy in the motionless, stagnant air. From Wordnik.com. [The Schoolmistress and other stories] Reference
For them, these seemingly trite and mawkishly sentimental ideals became inspirational guidelines for living. From Wordnik.com. [Matsushita Leadership] Reference
Mayo family, with what result you know, except that I haven't told you that the presumptuous dolt made love mawkishly to me all the evening. From Wordnik.com. [The Love Affairs of an Old Maid] Reference
She was staring up into its mawkishly placid face with shrinking fear written on her own, an exquisite contrast between the feeling and the unfeeling, he thought. From Wordnik.com. [The Thorn Birds]
Plot exists to reveal the mawkishly cute characters and situations (cute even in their occasional freakishness), but is otherwise so conventional as to be simply perfunctory. From Wordnik.com. [Experimental Fiction] Reference
She much prefers hers to the mawkishly fishy version: "If I had ever had a love poem written as honestly and prettily about me, I would have wanted it to be read hundreds of years on.". From Wordnik.com. [Tart with a cart? Older song shows Dublin's Molly Malone in new light] Reference
Cora's tale of her love for Billy Boyle back in his heister days, her slide into call-house service when he went to prison, and her lingering crush on Wallace Simpkins was predictable and mawkishly rendered. From Wordnik.com. [Hollywood Nocturne]
Not to fuss and fume, not to cry out about anything, not to be mawkishly sentimental; to be vigorous and sustain your personality intact — such was his theory of life, and he was satisfied that it was a good one. From Wordnik.com. [Jennie Gerhardt] Reference
Mediterranean smiles mawkishly in white olive-wood. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Bloweth] Reference
Now, deprived of the awful, mawkishly insincere vocals that plagued. From Wordnik.com. [The Line Of Best Fit] Reference
They were mawkishly sentimental when they should have felt keen grief and horror. From Wordnik.com. [Combed Out] Reference
His face was red, and his nose was crimson; his eyes were moist and mawkishly sweet. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers Karamazov] Reference
Diaries today and already I know where any diary I've ever written has gone so mawkishly wrong. From Wordnik.com. [dovegreyreader scribbles] Reference
I knew not how to return or to merit her favours, and the attempt made me mawkishly sentimental. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hugh Trevor] Reference
Formula One followers, rather mawkishly, used to watch drivers cheat death, or fail in the attempt. From Wordnik.com. [Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk] Reference
In this spot, called "family is everything," the Dear Leader mawkishly prattles on about the joys of fatherhood. From Wordnik.com. [Liblogs.ca latest blog entries] Reference
However mawkishly we dwell on the mortality of the presidential contenders, it is they who determine the voters 'decision. From Wordnik.com. [Israelated - English Israel blogs] Reference
Сопли (sniveling) can be rhymed with вопли (moaning) to refer to something cloyingly tragic, mawkishly melodramatic. From Wordnik.com. [The St. Petersburg Times] Reference
It is only your mawkishly sentimental people who are perpetually tumbling into love, and out of it, and can't help showing it. From Wordnik.com. [The Norsemen in the West] Reference
Spinoffs like "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" and "Law & Order: SVU" delve deeply and mawkishly into the personal lives of their heroes and heroines. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Mr. Cavanagh, who was mawkishly cute in the role of a small-town lawyer on "Ed," here is more bearable as a charmingly glib, but mostly annoying, sidekick. From Wordnik.com. [Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.] Reference
Do not, however, have anything to do with the mawkishly sweet chocolates of the candy shops or the imported milk chocolate, which are not suited for the purpose. From Wordnik.com. [Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes and Home Made Candy Recipes] Reference
He was keenly, some might say mawkishly, sensible of the stain and dishonour of turning, even involuntarily and passingly, covetous glances upon another man's goods. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference
And the modern school of realistic, mawkishly foul novelists, who hold that Love excuseth all, would have taken delight in the passionate rendering of the girl's name. From Wordnik.com. [With Edged Tools] Reference
He was a young man, about eighteen, but already looked dissipated and unhealthy, with a mawkishly insolent grin on his unclean face, and an expression of fatigue in his swollen eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Jew and Other Stories] Reference
The relationship between Edward and Clarence certainly has its share of fun moments, but the journey is punctuated by tragedies that are dealt with in the most mawkishly obvious manner. From Wordnik.com. [DVD Verdict] Reference
Instead Rudd chose to grin mawkishly, hold summit after summit, make promises that he subsequently forgot (Indigenous report), create bizarre schemes like FuelWatch, GroceryWatch etc etc. From Wordnik.com. [Crikey » Canberra Calling] Reference
I demand that you admit you were wrong about its being an atrocity and mawkishly sentimental.”. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
(Indeed the golden Garden State upbringing so mawkishly misrepresented by Joel has, Rosenbaum, been redeemed by The Boss. From Wordnik.com. [Dartblog] Reference
You are mawkishly sentimental!. From Wordnik.com. [The Ivory Trail] Reference
Sybil so amiable (yes, quite mawkishly so). From Wordnik.com. [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference
His condition had made him mawkishly sentimental. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Noon] Reference
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