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Definition
insincerely emotional or with contrived sentimentality
- His face was red, and his nose was crimson; his eyes were moist and mawkishly sweet.Book 8 — Mitya (89% in)
- 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.Book 7 — Alyosha (58% in)
There are no more uses of "mawkish" in The Brothers Karamazov.
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