47 examples of mawkish in sentences

This mawkish element unfortunately survives in much of the author's later verse.

Taught in her school t' imbibe thy mawkish strain, Condorcet!

The children pass out of their seats to the cheerful sound of music, and are presently joining in an ideal sort of game, where, in place of the mawkish sentimentality of "Sally Walker," of obnoxious memory, we see all sorts of healthful, poetic, childlike fancies woven into song.

In such passages as the death of Little Nell in The Old Curiosity Shop and the interviews between Dora and David in David Copperfield, Dickens becomes mawkish and sentimental.

There is an entire absence of mawkish sentimentality, of effort to conceal the secret motives and desires of the heart beneath specious language and words of double meaning.

Insipidity N. insipidity, blandness; tastelessness &c adj.. V. be tasteless &c adj.. Adj. bland, void of taste &c 390; insipid; tasteless, gustless^, savorless; ingustible^, mawkish, milk and water, weak, stale, flat, vapid, fade, wishy-washy, mild; untasted^. 392.

This horrid business, at another time, would have made me sick as any dog, but there was no time to yield to mawkish susceptibilities in the face of such danger as menaced us.

Really? SECOND TOAD More and more his song confesses itself effete THE BIG TOAD Mawkish!

They are in Walpole's works; Lady Hervey rather mawkish, but the Bellenden charming.

The saccharine romance-monger, Elise Polko, has a rather mawkish story which she connects with his name, though on what authority, I am ignorant.

Recent events have proved to me that there is a mawkish sentimentality but too prevalent on this subject abroad, which interferes greatly with moral training, the proper freedom of the school-master, and even with the administration of public justice.

For study of character, wide charity of outlook, brilliant descriptive writingas, for instance, in the charge at Balaclava, and real, not mawkish, pathosas in the hopeless misery of Charles, invalided, with only eighteen shillings, out of the army"Ravenshoe" will always deserve to be read.

This necessary defect is observable in his best works, and is still more so in Fleetwood and Mandeville; the one of which, compared with his more admired performances, is mawkish, and the other morbid.

and all the rest of it have created an ideal as false as it is mawkish.

A devil's pluck thou'rt wont to show; As for a devil who despairs Nothing I find so mawkish here below.

I can discern, indeed, that some of them are mawkish in sentiment, faulty in rhyme, and, on the whole, what you would call extremely unfitted to be sung in public worship, if you were judging of them as new things: but a crowd of associations which are beautiful and touching gathers round the lines which have no great beauty or pathos in themselves.

Notwithstanding all the mawkish nonsense that has been put forth by sentimentalists concerning feminine eating, I hold that it is one of the nicest things in the world to see a pretty woman enjoying the creature comforts; and Byron himself, had he been one of this picnic party, would have been unable to resist the admiration that filled the souls of Burnham and Salsbury.

I can't be friendly with a woman without drifting into mawkish tendernessthere's the simple truth.

Murray, in whose illustrations the word king occurs early one hundred times, seldom honours his Majesty with a capital; and, what is more, in all this mawkish mentioning of royalty, nothing is said of it that is worth knowing.

" "I did get some in the beginning, but they seemed all untrue and mawkish, or sad and dramatic, and the heroines did such silly things, and the men were mostly brutes, so I have given them up.

TOBY-DOG But I'm afraid of hurting herand my tongue, horrified, tastes the slimy mawkish stuff.

We ate some, and pronounced them to be but mawkish things.

While a mistaken, not to say a mawkish, philanthropy is unsettling so many of the ancient land-marks of society, and, among other heresies, is preaching the doctrine that "the object of punishment is the reformation of the criminal," it is a truth which all experience confirms that nothing renders justice so terrible, and consequently so efficient, as its promptitude and certainty.

To him they were weak and mawkish, and in him they would have been treacherous.

And the whole thing is rotten with mawkish sentimentality, and false prudery, and abeyance of common sense.

47 examples of  mawkish  in sentences