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Mawkishness

noun
1.
Insincere pathos.  Synonym: bathos.
2.
Falsely emotional in a maudlin way.  Synonyms: drippiness, mushiness, sentimentality, sloppiness, soupiness.





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"Mawkishness" Quotes from Famous Books



... seemed by their eyes to condone the mawkishness of the demonstration which had tempted him. There was indeed a kind of approving interest in their joint regard, which he ...
— The Market-Place • Harold Frederic
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... here; for he himself has related them in clear, life-like, homely terms which reveal one of the sources of his personal influence. Englishmen admire a man who is active without being fussy, who combines greatness with simplicity, whose kindliness is as devoid of ostentation as his religion is of mawkishness, and with whom ambition is ever the handmaid of patriotism. The character of a commander perhaps counts for more with British troops than with any others, except the French; and the men who marched with Roberts from Cabul to Candahar, and from Paardeberg ...
— The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) • John Holland Rose
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... she was young and virtuous—had she not been so for the last five and twenty years?—the comic man had not to open his mouth for us to begin to laugh; a latent sibilance foreran the villain. Least mutable of all, the hero swaggered on, virtuous without mawkishness, pugnacious without brutality. How sublime a destiny, to stand for morals and muscle to the generations of Hoxton, to incarnate the copy-book crossed with the "Sporting Times!" Were they bearable in private life, these monsters ...
— Without Prejudice • Israel Zangwill
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Words linked to "Mawkishness" :   schmalz, shmaltz, emotionalism, emotionality, corn, sentimentalism, schmaltz, mawkish, sentimentality


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