Sentence example with the word 'mawkish'

mawkish

bad, cloying, gushing, maudlin, nauseating, noxious, oversweet, rich, sentimental, slushy, tears, yucky

Last update: January 22, 2017


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It was a mawkish film.   [adjective]

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But maybe the program 's greatest achievement was avoiding mawkish sentimentality.   [adjective]

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But for some reason, the sheer emotional nudity on show - plus all that mawkish teenage sentiment really had me on edge.   [adjective]

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Mawkish pulp her mouth had mumbled sweetsour of her spittle.   [adjective]

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The salt has a sweet, mawkish taste.   [Please select]

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The children shouted as the fiery sweetmeats burnt away the mawkish taste of the furmety.   [Please select]

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No one would have accused him of mawkish sentiment.   [Please select]

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That's why the thing I'm saying seems mere sentiment to you, and even mawkish.'   [Please select]

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I am just now actually mawkish with virtue," she murmured, between the kisses."   [Please select]

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For she's a mawkish, milk-and-water, little schoolgirl, while he is charming--all there is of him.   [Please select]

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He was full of fake mawkish emotions, when his little brother started to bawl after his fish died.   [Please select]

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