adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The movie is set to a mawkish score.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A mawkish exercise, but one that everyone enjoys - to step about this cluttered suburb like a daytime ghost.
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Despite a few mawkish moments, much of the exhumed material sounds top-drawer.
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He can combine tenderness and humour without becoming mawkish .
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Matthew came by her, and held open the door to the small room with a mawkish bow.
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Oh, really, she told herself crossly, you're becoming mawkish !
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Then, perhaps feeling that his gesture was mawkish , he looked embarrassed, took the flowers out and backed away.