mawkishness 的定义
- characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin.
- having a mildly sickening flavor; slightly nauseating.
mawkishness 近义词
sentimentality
更多mawkishness例句
- If you deny them to the latter, all you get is poverty of ideas, and morbidity, and mawkishness.
- Dickens's sentiment seldom rings perfectly true; too often it is sharped to flippancy, or flatted to mawkishness.
- His Endymion, 1818, though disfigured by mawkishness and by some affectations of manner, was rich in promise.
- There were few tears and less mawkishness when the battalions moved out from their home towns on the long trail.
- The ladies, watching him, seemed by their eyes to condone the mawkishness of the demonstration which had tempted him.