Use of mawkish in Sentences. 25 Examples

The examples include mawkish at the start of sentence, mawkish at the end of sentence and mawkish in the middle of sentence

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mawkish at the end of sentence


  1. He can combine tenderness and humour without becoming mawkish.
  2. Oh, really, she told herself crossly, you're becoming mawkish!

mawkish in the middle of sentence


  1. The movie is set to a mawkish score.
  2. The film lapses into mawkish sentimentality near the end.
  3. mawkish videos are legitimate triggers for a show of feeling.
  4. A sordid, sentimental plot unwinds, with an inevitable mawkish ending.
  5. Wheeler and Jones sang a mawkish duet about a girl worth a million wishes.
  6. Despite a few mawkish moments, much of the exhumed material sounds top-drawer.
  7. But if it is messy and occasionally mawkish, "The First Grader" is rarely dull.
  8. And tenderness, too—but does that appear a mawkish thing to desiderate in life?
  9. Matthew came by her, and held open the door to the small room with a mawkish bow.
  10. Ironically, it is these mawkish , calcified heads that have tarnished the sculptor's reputation.
  11. Status Offline And tenderness, too—but does that appear a mawkish thing to desiderate in life?
  12. The officer workers hurried along to work, motorbuses were full of sweaty people and the mawkish smell.
  13. A mawkish exercise, but one that everyone enjoys - to step about this cluttered suburb like a daytime ghost.
  14. Then, perhaps feeling that his gesture was mawkish, he looked embarrassed, took the flowers out and backed away.
  15. Such feelings infuse Ekhrajiha, which is nonetheless an odd mix of slapstick humour and mawkish sentimentality.
  16. After seeing by every picture, the participants would point apt a manikin that represented their mawkish response.
  17. Some extremely powerful scenes drive home the book's themes without resorting to mawkish sentiment or easy emotional button mashing.
  18. Alternately mawkish and grisly, The Lovely Bones bounces back and forth between Susie's dreamily surreal limbo and the mundane miseries of life on earth.
  19. Insecurity usually mars this relationship. This can be one extremely mawkish union. Unique, destructive, yet passionate and lustful resulting in impair and misgiving.
  20. Marks Playhouse, in the East Village, and specialized in mawkish narratives whose sweetness was intended to soften, if not disguise, the ideology at the company's core.
  21. All of this rubbish was resurrected last week in the thousand mawkish excuses found by the media and her crooning acolytes for "giving her time" to withdraw from the race.
  22. Yet there was nothing mawkish or funereal about the atmosphere at the weekend shows — rather they were a celebration of the individuality that produces imaginative talent.
  23. All this mawkish celebration, they maintain, merely bolsters an anti-democratic institution based on privilege and patronage, a costly anachronism that ought to be abolished.

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