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Definition of Mawkishly
1. Adverb. In a mawkish and emotional manner. "The violinist played that piece mawkishly"
Definition of Mawkishly
1. adv. In a mawkish way.
Definition of Mawkishly
1. Adverb. In a mawkish manner. ¹
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Definition of Mawkishly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mawkishly
Literary usage of Mawkishly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1882)
"... but seeing the thing that is to be done and straightway doing it with all his
might ; not trying, either, to mawkishly " suffer and be strong," but ..."
2. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1916)
"But the tone of it—if not, as was pretended at the time, immoral—is mawkishly
sentimental, the language trivial and slipshod and the whole style what ..."
3. Poetry by Modern Poetry Association (1921)
"The apathetic, mawkishly-religious middle class are our enemies. A labor-leader,
for example, who has been indicted for complicity in the dynamite plots, ..."
4. The American Journal of Education by Henry Barnard (1861)
"Such music is most appropriate for girls ; whereas precisely the reverse is true
of that very common mawkishly sentimental kind of music which is either ..."
5. Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1910)
"... has also a Titanian fondness for quaint and dainty expressions, affected turns,
and mawkishly effeminate sentiment; and who would be the worst model, ..."
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