mawkish

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• Yet her work is all heart, her flights of fancy rich with nostalgia without being mawkish.

• You want mawkish made-for-television melodrama, try The Bachelor or The Biggest Loser.

• The jibe is off-key too because Wilde himself was hardly immune to the sentimental and even the mawkish.

• The water, too, had become very mawkish and vapid, and there was scarcely any tea left; what remained was used up that evening.

• Before I could answer he went on: "I'm no mawkish sentimentalist, and I won't allow anybody to be sorry for me—do you hear?"

• Do you know, I couldn't help it; but that good lady would seem to me quite mawkish in her flattery!

• It is a poor plot, and mawkish in character, though not without merits of style.

• The pathos of these scenes is never false, never mawkish or overdone; it is the pathos of life itself.