Sample Sentences formawkish (auto-selected)
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The story has a hopelessly mawkish ending.mawkish = with contrived sentimentality
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She is a well-paid writer or mawkish screenplays.
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The Cabaret's plywood-paneled walls are hung with deer antlers, Old Milwaukee beer promos, and mawkish paintings of game birds taking flight.† (source)
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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.'† (source)
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Their words were not mawkish melodrama; they meant what they said.† (source)
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The march lasted only a minute and a half but how dark and strong, what fatedness in the rolling brass, and then there was a long silence and a white screen and finally a face that transfigures itself in a series of multiple-exposure shots, losing its goiters and gnarls, a seamed eye reopening, and it was awfully mawkish, okay, but wonderful also, a sequence that occurred outside the action proper, a distinct and visible wish connecting you directly to the mind of the film, and the man sheds his marks and scars and seems to grow younger and paler until the face finally dissolves into landscape.† (source)
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The fantasy of the Grand March played more or less the same role in his life as the mawkish song about the two brightly lit windows in Sabina's.† (source)
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"No, I don't think so," Rob says mawkishly, thinking it's some sort of joke.† (source)
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Deriving his idiosyncrasies from both sides of the Channel, he showed at such junctures as the present the inelasticity of the Englishman, together with that blindness to the line where sentiment verges on mawkishness, characteristic of the French.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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On the way home, riding through the green marshes, I would explain to the shell-shocked visitor that the children felt that Strauss was overrated, you know, old chap, a little too mawkish and sugary.† (source)
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His face was red, and his nose was crimson; his eyes were moist and mawkishly sweet.† (source)
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'Yes, Arkady, yes, I have other things to say to you, but I'm not going to say them, because that's sentimentalism—that means, mawkishness.† (source)
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—to conquer the world, was the way his voice sounded on his last sentence-and she marveled at the difference between that sound and the shameful, mawkish tone, half-whine, half-threat, the tone of beggar and thug combined, which the men of their century had given to the word "need."† (source)
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She had not planned to weep—it was the last thing from her mind, a display of mawkish weakness—but she could not help it.† (source)
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Alas, alas, that knowledge, in itself so hateful and mawkish a thing, should yet be necessary for Power!† (source)
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It would have been good-natured except for a look in the eyes, which shone with a watery, mawkish light under almost white, blinking eyelashes.† (source)
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