The Only Use of
mawkish
in
Wuthering Heights
- You'd hear of odd things if I lived alone with that mawkish, waxen face: the most ordinary would be painting on its white the colours of the rainbow, and turning the blue eyes black, every day or two: they detestably resemble Linton's.'†
Chpt 10
Definition:
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(mawkish) insincerely emotional or with contrived sentimentality