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Mawkishly
Mawkishly Mawk"ish*ly, adv. In a mawkish way.
Mawkishness
Mawkishness Mawk"ish*ness, n. The quality or state of being mawkish. --J. H. Newman.

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- financial success, but mixed reviews, with some critics judging it to be a mawkish adaptation. It was also noted for its soundtrack, and nominated for several...
- butchers for his own life and the lives of his American comrades verges on to mawkish twaddle." New York Times: "Tom Skeyhill, Author, Dies in Plane Crash",...
- film three and a half out of four stars and wrote, "This could have been mawkish—an "eat your vegetables" movie about an inspirational figure overcoming...
- Look up hokey in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hokey means corny, mawkishly sentimental, or obviously contrived. Hokey can also refer to: Hokey, the...
- her best [...] tone to sell hokey lines" in a series it described as "mawkish and overwrought". She took on the leading female role in the French action...
- were negative; Chris Nashawaty of Entertainment W****ly dismissed it as "mawkish and melodramatic" but credited Winslet for adding layers to her p****ive...
- Such book reviews achieved for the novel a "certain notoriety for being 'mawkish and nauseous', 'unclean', 'effeminate' and 'contaminating'." Such moralistic...
- a typically strong Michael Caine performance, but it's ultimately too mawkish and dawdling to make much impact." Metacritic gives the film a score of...
- very funny. Or very good." Msn.com says "Ricky Gervais' Derek remains a mawkish mess. Where to begin? The mockumentary format is moribund. The ethics are...
- 2023). "'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3' sends off its heroes with a mawkish mixtape". NPR. Archived from the original on May 4, 2023. Retrieved May...