mawkish• He can combine tenderness and humour without becoming mawkish.• Oh, really, she told herself crossly, you're becoming mawkish!• Matthew came by her, and held open the door to the small room with a mawkishbow.• A mawkishexercise, but one that everyone enjoys - to step about this clutteredsuburb like a daytimeghost.• Then, perhaps feeling that his gesture was mawkish, he looked embarrassed, took the flowers out and backed away.• Despite a few mawkishmoments, much of the exhumedmaterial sounds top-drawer.• The movie is set to a mawkishscore.
Originmawkish
(1600-1700)mawk“maggot”((15-19 centuries)), from Old Norsemathkr