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Example sentences for: mawkish

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"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.
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.
CCD-impaired journalists blot out the past and embrace the mawkish.
Critics complain that this is a "mawkish tale ...
Without being mawkish, I think one can say that Susan Faludi reached beyond her role as a feminist, or even as a writer.