mawkish.

Emotionally sweet or sentimental to an uncomfortable degree.

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Words that belong together

• mawkish sentiment
• mawkish scene

On the page

The ending slipped into mawkish sentiment.

He cut the mawkish scene from the draft.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more mawkish; superlative most mawkish where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.