Definition and meaning of Mawkish

looking fake or silly by being excessively sentimental

Use Mawkish in a sentence examples

Most of the guests rolled their eyes as the star’s mawkish poem at her mentor’s funeral was so insincere.

My not so romantic wife would never do anything as mawkish as writing a poem for me.

The politician’s  speech was so mawkish that could not win him any new votes.

While Kelly loved her family, she was not the one to get mawkish and put on excessive displays of sentiments.