Noun:

ବିଚାର,

mawkishness's Usage Examples:

that the "internal logic of the story doesn"t bear inspection, and the mawkishness and moralising is unappealing".

goodwill of its people that neither revels in irony nor descends into mawkishness.

She blamed this mawkishness on the use of Treves"s memoirs as source material.

while remaining formal, avoided the mawkishness of the former and the attitudinising of the latter.

and even humorously with a difficult situation without descending into mawkishness".

Cul de Sac avoids both mawkishness and cynicism and instead finds genuine charm in its loopy appreciation.

the mawkishness would be unbearable, but Mr.

playing make Shelter worth a listen, depending on one"s tolerance for mawkishness".

audiobook version, was even blunter, calling the book "truly dopey", with "mawkishness (of) insufferable proportions".

even Richardson and Sprouse can"t fully overcome the clumsy mawkishness around them.

all the girls he"s loved before—and to Streep, who alchemizes literary mawkishness into intelligent movie passion.

all its contrivances and occasional lapses into On Golden Pond-style mawkishness, this is a richly crafted yarn that boasts barnstorming, if very showy.

and dredging up her worst fears as a young female writer: mawkishness, philistinism, naïveté, stupidity, solipsism.

Synonyms:

soupiness, drippiness, emotionality, corn, sloppiness, shmaltz, mushiness, sentimentality, schmalz, schmaltz, sentimentalism, emotionalism,

Antonyms:

warm, cold, emotional, hot, unemotionality,