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What is the adjective for mawkishly?

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mawkish
  1. (archaic or dialectal) Feeling sick, queasy.
  2. (archaic) Sickening or insipid in taste or smell.
  3. Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Its mawkish sentimentality and studied compositional restraint is typical of high Victorian genre painting shown at the Fair.”
      “This is a refreshing development, given that modern theatre is all too often marked by self-indulgence and mawkish sentimentality.”
      “But when the script turns to more romantic themes, it's never mawkish or sentimental, just grown-up.”
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