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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



... years would probably convince them that the strongest taste for tragedy comes before one's teens, and inclines to the melodramatic; that sentimentality (of some kind) is grateful to the verge of mawkishness; and that simple tastes are rather a result of culture and experience ...
— Jan of the Windmill • Juliana Horatia Ewing
... suppose some good people will gather from this that I favor men who commit crimes. I certainly do not favor them. I have not a particle of sympathy with the sentimentality—as I deem it, the mawkishness—which overflows with foolish pity for the criminal and cares not at all for the victim of the criminal. I am glad to see wrong-doers punished. The punishment is an absolute necessity from the standpoint of society; and I put the reformation ...
— Theodore Roosevelt - An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt


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