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Definition of Mawkishly

Mawkishly
Mawkishly Mawk"ish*ly, adv. In a mawkish way.

Meaning of Mawkishly from wikipedia

- Look up hokey in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hokey means corny, mawkishly sentimental, or obviously contrived. Hokey can also refer to: Hokey, the...
- described The Fisher King as "one of the most nonsensical, pretentious, mawkishly cloying movies I ever had to wretch through". Following Robin Williams's...
- were negative; Chris Nashawaty of Entertainment W****ly dismissed it as "mawkish and melodramatic" but credited Winslet for adding layers to her p****ive...
- sepulchral charisma" and that "the original's fine dance on the edge of mawkish sentimentality is disrupted often enough by less-than-stellar acting"....
- disproportioned structures; awkwardly unpredictable metrical variation; clashing, mawkish diction; complex, wandering syntax; etc." He occasionally drew from the...
- all its contrivances and occasional lapses into On Golden Pond-style mawkishness, this is a richly crafted yarn that boasts barnstorming, if very showy...
- had written. "Yesterday" has also been criticised for being mundane and mawkish. Bob Dylan had a marked dislike for the song, stating that "If you go into...
- film three and a half out of four stars and wrote, "This could have been mawkish—an "eat your vegetables" movie about an inspirational figure overcoming...
- expressed the opinion that, "It has become an embarr****ing memory, like a mawkish, self-pitying teenage entry in a diary ... we cringe to think about it...
- 2023. Loughrey, Clarisse (5 October 2023). "The Great Escaper review: Mawkish patriotism lets down the wonderfully paired Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson"...