mawkish
maw kish
- s effusively or insincerely emotional
- The television channels are left with some mawkish soap operas and banal sitcoms.
- The movie was moving and sentimental but not to the point that it became mawkish.
- Culture snobs who thought of her as that mawkish woman who was always on a diet now think of her as that mawkish woman on a diet who has got millions of people to read Toni Morrison.