Sample sentences for the
GRE study word mawkish
mawkish
can be used as a adj
1. bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy -- (effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry")
1.
Wine soaked and softened rolled pith of bread mustard a moment
mawkish
cheese.
- from Ulysses by James Joyce
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