Translations for „mawkishness“ in the English » German Dictionary

mawk·ish·ness [ˈmɔ:kɪʃnəs, Am esp ˈmɑ:k-] N no pl

mawkishness

Rührseligkeit f

mawkishness

Sentimentalität f

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English

There is no mawkishness in his grief.

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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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Instead, this is telenovela-style storytelling with predictable villains and far too much simpering mawkishness.

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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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However, the family tree is occasionally confusing, mawkishness creeps in and the dialogue is thin.

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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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You don't want to tip over into mawkishness or be unamusing when you're trying to be funny.

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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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It's a disorienting dose of mawkishness totally at odds with the spirit of anarchy that has prevailed so far.

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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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