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Cloying sentimentality
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mawkishness
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Word definitions for mawkishness in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mawkishness \Mawk"ish*ness\, n. The quality or state of being mawkish. --J. H. Newman.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. insincere pathos [syn: bathos ] falsely emotional in a maudlin way [syn: sentimentality , drippiness ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The property of being mawkish.
Usage examples of mawkishness.
On the many occasions that she and I would recollect some mutual memory of Frido, she always regally refrained from tears or mawkishness.
Deriving his idiosyncrasies from both sides of the Channel, he showed at such junctures as the present the inelasticity of the Englishman, together with that blindness to the line where sentiment verges on mawkishness, characteristic of the French.