Words similar to mawkishness

Example sentences for: mawkishness

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Critics say the film, which won the Grand Prize at Cannes, avoids mawkishness despite its heart-wrenching subject matter.
All this mawkishness would likely have annoyed the real Whale, who exited the world on his own terms and steered clear, in his art, of banality.
Actor Gary Oldman's directorial debut about a dysfunctional South London family is praised for avoiding the moralizing mawkishness of the typical British working-class drama.