Definition of Mawkishness. Meaning of Mawkishness. Synonyms of Mawkishness

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Definition of Mawkishness

Mawkishness
Mawkishness Mawk"ish*ness, n. The quality or state of being mawkish. --J. H. Newman.

Meaning of Mawkishness from wikipedia

- goodwill of its people that neither revels in irony nor descends into mawkishness. A film based on the book was directed by Ed Bye and starred Tony Hawks...
- Look up hokey in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hokey means corny, mawkishly sentimental, or obviously contrived. Hokey can also refer to: Hokey, the...
- 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...
- were negative; Chris Nashawaty of Entertainment W****ly dismissed it as "mawkish and melodramatic" but credited Winslet for adding layers to her p****ive...
- 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...
- Such book reviews achieved for the novel a "certain notoriety for being 'mawkish and nauseous', 'unclean', 'effeminate' and 'contaminating'." Such moralistic...
- all its contrivances and occasional lapses into On Golden Pond-style mawkishness, this is a richly crafted yarn that boasts barnstorming, if very showy...
- was poorly received critically, with The Guardian calling it "the most mawkish film of the year/decade/era". In October of that year she made her last...
- all the girls he's loved before—and to Streep, who alchemizes literary mawkishness into intelligent movie p****ion." The Bridges of Madison County tied with...
- a pair of scissors to cut the wick shorter. A spell of indescribable mawkishness ran through me and I thought: I was just like this half-burned candle...