mawkishness in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for mawkishness in the English»French Dictionary

mawkishness [Brit ˈmɔːkɪʃnəs, Am ˈmɔkɪʃnəs] N pej

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Those of you who have pets need no reminder of the ridiculous grief their deaths cause, and those who don't will find the mawkishness repellent.
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Instead, this is telenovela-style storytelling with predictable villains and far too much simpering mawkishness.
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His work, while remaining formal, avoided the mawkishness of the former and the attitudinising of the latter.
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Suggested synonyms for the word include not only sentimentalism, but mawkishness, maudlinism, melodramatics, mushiness -- a host of "m" words to make the whole idea quite unappealing.
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Her poems which have survived, however, appear to the modern reader as being too syrupy for comfort, too sentimental to the point of mawkishness, and utterly devoid of form.
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There is no mawkishness in his grief.
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It's a disorienting dose of mawkishness totally at odds with the spirit of anarchy that has prevailed so far.
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However, the family tree is occasionally confusing, mawkishness creeps in and the dialogue is thin.
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Respecting the mawkishness and simplicity of the old man, the young officer did not disturb the arrangement.
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He emphasizes that the style of the story must be admirably satiric, ironic to avoid any hint of mawkishness or self-pity.
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