The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mawkishly
Mawkishly \Mawk"ish*ly\, adv. In a mawkish way.
Wiktionary
mawkishly
adv. In a mawkish manner.
WordNet
mawkishly
adv. in a mawkish and emotional manner; "the violinist played that piece mawkishly" [syn: drippily]
Usage examples of "mawkishly".
On entering this simple inn with its yellow painted walls and tattered football posters and plastic wine barrels, he had felt suddenly that he had been here before, not in this particular osteria of course, nothing so mawkishly improbable as that -- rather, it recalled for him all those village osterias of his childhood, too long forgotten, this one now their quintessence.
Keith's tone was mawkishly pally, seeming to offer the commiserations due to a shared burden (faulty household appliances.