Example sentences for: mawkish

How can you use “mawkish” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It is "virtually guaranteed to rattle the most jaded of cages" (John Anderson, the Los Angeles Times ). One cage is left unrattled, though: Stephen Holden of the New York Times delivers an uncharacteristically nasty write-up, calling it "gaggingly mawkish supernatural kitsch" that is "a garish hybrid of Simon Birch and What Dreams May Come ." (Click here to visit the official site.)

  • "Clinton's behavior has been contemptible throughout, from his initial offences, to his legalistic evasions, to his unbearably mawkish and snivelling apologies," the paper said.

  • CCD-impaired journalists blot out the past and embrace the mawkish.

  • And if he sometimes wandered into whimsy--that alluring comic swamp--and even farther, into mawkish sentimentality with "Happiness Is a Warm Puppy," he more often executed that most difficult comic turn, being simultaneously funny and sweet.

  • Critics complain that this is a "mawkish tale ...


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