Both Uses
mawkish
in
The Brothers Karamazov
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- Her whole manner seemed changed for the better since yesterday, there was scarcely any trace of that mawkish sweetness in her speech, of that voluptuous softness in her movements.†
Chpt 7
- His face was red, and his nose was crimson; his eyes were moist and mawkishly sweet.†
Chpt 8 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(mawkish) insincerely emotional or with contrived sentimentality
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)