mawkishly
adverb
disapprovinguk /ˈmɔː.kɪʃ.li/ us /ˈmɑː.kɪʃ.li/
in an awkward or silly way of showing emotion or love: 无病呻吟地;多愁善感地
A story that could be mawkishly sentimental is instead treated with delicacy and restraint.一个可能是多愁善感的故事反而被小心和克制地处理了。
the book's mawkishly sad closing lines这本书令人感伤的结尾
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His book is mawkishly sentimental and predictable.
The film is mawkishly preachy at times.
I do like the way Broadway musicals make an audience care - however mawkishly - about their characters.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Sentimental and over-emotional
cloying
cloyingly
gauzily
gushily
gushy
mush
mushily
mushy
sappiness
sappy
sentimentalist
sentimentality
sick-making
sloppily
sloppiness
slushy
syrupy
treacly
twee
tweeness
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