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Six example sentences with mawkish, each labelled with its topic.
The ballad turns mawkish in the last chorus, piling strings and sobbing backing vocals onto an already simple lyric.
Music
Critics called the memorial painting mawkish, all doves and pink clouds where a plain stone would have moved people more.
Art
The founder's farewell email struck staff as mawkish, three pages of tears about a merger everyone knew was routine.
Business
The ending turns mawkish, with a slow piano and a dog running through the rain to find its family.
Movies
The poet's later verse grew mawkish, all tearful farewells and sunsets, and the critics stopped reviewing it.
Literature
The mayor's mawkish farewell speech, full of trembling pauses, struck reporters as rehearsed rather than felt.
Politics
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