Crossword clues for mawkishness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mawkishness
Mawkishness \Mawk"ish*ness\, n.
The quality or state of being mawkish.
--J. H. Newman.
Wiktionary
mawkishness
n. The property of being mawkish.
WordNet
mawkishness
n. insincere pathos [syn: bathos]
falsely emotional in a maudlin way [syn: sentimentality, drippiness]
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.