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Recent Examples of mawkish These kinds of pictures are intended to provoke—to catch the eye with their mawkish absurdity and uncanny-valley optics. Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2025 The flashbacks are dreamy without becoming mawkish, and Gemma’s scenes in Lumon are nightmarish without feeling untethered or otherwordly. Ben Travers, IndieWire, 28 Feb. 2025 Roz rescues wildlife in a Noah’s Ark analogue, then goes from being a disingenuous Christ figure offering sacrifice and promise (but no resurrection) to a mawkish maternal figure. Armond White, National Review, 26 Feb. 2025 Beyond all the legal and even medical specifics resides a sense of communal understanding, and — at the risk of sounding mawkish — a deep and abiding love for one’s fellow human beings, which Feder taps into with aplomb. Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 28 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mawkish
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Adjective
  • Paula also shared another angle of the cast singalong to her 1997 single, a particularly sentimental moment for the handful of fans who got to take in the one-night-only charity event.
    Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Art that truly centres girlhood, meanwhile, had too often been dismissed as sentimental or lacking intellectual rigor.
    Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The sloppy play extended beyond the penalties.
    Daniel Popper, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The sweater’s hip-skimming length and relaxed cut result in a fit that feels effortlessly lived-in (not sloppy), while its wear-with-anything design is easy to style.
    Averi Baudler, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Its sheer pink hue and non-sticky texture check all my boxes.
    Sarah Hoffmann, Allure, 3 Oct. 2025
  • That commitment was further emphasized by the addition of Reed, who replaced another sticky corner in Carlton Davis III.
    Colton Pouncy, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025

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“Mawkish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mawkish. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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