Mawkish is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.
You can make 150 anagrams from letters in mawkish (ahikmsw).
1660-70; obsolete mawk maggot (late Middle English Old Norse mathkr maggot) + -ish1. See maggot
It's all splendid and barbaric; no mawkish sentiment about it.
The jibe is off-key too because Wilde himself was hardly immune to the sentimental and even the mawkish.
They are a weakening of moral fiber, a waste of mawkish sentimentality.
For mawkish, sentimental religion the Count had an honest contempt.
This is no time for trifling, nor for mawkish sentimentality.
What a fool, what a weak, mawkish, insipid fool he had made of himself!
Often there is to the style a mawkish Sunday-school juvenile flavor.
I hate 'em when they make parting scenes: it's too mawkish!'
There was no mawkish sentiment—no melancholy in his make-up.
Yes, my heart swells, but not with the mawkish fondness of a feeble mother.