Those of you who have pets need no reminder of the ridiculous grief their deaths cause, and those who don't will find the mawkishness repellent.
www.telegraph.co.uk Instead, this is telenovela-style storytelling with predictable villains and far too much simpering mawkishness.
www.eonline.com His work, while remaining formal, avoided the mawkishness of the former and the attitudinising of the latter.
en.wikipedia.org Suggested synonyms for the word include not only sentimentalism, but mawkishness, maudlinism, melodramatics, mushiness -- a host of "m" words to make the whole idea quite unappealing.
www.salon.com Her poems which have survived, however, appear to the modern reader as being too syrupy for comfort, too sentimental to the point of mawkishness, and utterly devoid of form.
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