The Only Use
mawkish
in
Wuthering Heights
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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.'†
p. 77.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(mawkish) insincerely emotional or with contrived sentimentality
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)