Difference between Maudlin and Mawkish

MAUDLIN vs MAWKISH: NOUN

An aromatic composite herb, the costmary; also, the South European Achillea Ageratum, a kind of yarrow.
The costmary, Tanacetum Balsamita.
A hardy herbaceous plant, Achillea Ageratum, a kind of milfoil, native to southern Europe, bearing yellow flowers. Also called sweet maudlin.

Effusively sad or full of self-pity; extremely sentimental: : sentimental.
Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly.
Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled; given to drunkenness.
Effusively or insincerely emotional

Insipid; sickening; sickly: as, mawkish champagne; mawkish sentimentality.
Maggoty. [Not found in this literal sense. Compare mawky, 1.] Hence Loathsome; apt to cause loathing or nausea; sickening.

Weepy, Saccharine, Treacly, Melodramatic, Sappy, Agglutinations, Teary, Schmalzy, Slushy, Emotional, Mushy, Sentimental, Bathetic, Schmaltzy, Mawkish

Saccharine, Treacly, Sappy, Melodramatic, Hokey, Sentimentality, Cloying, Schmalzy, Slushy, Emotional, Mushy, Sentimental, Bathetic, Schmaltzy, Maudlin

Soppy, Weepy, Saccharine, Treacly, Melodramatic, Sappy, Teary, Schmalzy, Slushy, Emotional, Mushy, Sentimental, Bathetic, Schmaltzy, Mawkish

Saccharine, Treacly, Sappy, Melodramatic, Hokey, Sentimentality, Cloying, Schmalzy, Slushy, Emotional, Mushy, Sentimental, Bathetic, Schmaltzy, Maudlin

Some of my work has appeared in Hobart, Maudlin House, and Little Old Lady Comedy.
Cast: Nicole Beharie, Kendrick Sampson, Alexis Chikaeze, Lori Hayes, Marcus Maudlin.
An earlier version of this poem was more maudlin and wistful.
Mother In favor of a tired but spirited Maudlin Mary.
Maudlin, head of the NUC computer sciences and simulation division.
Bittman would be doing this sort of thing on Maudlin.
Despite the vintage look, he is neither maudlin nor nostalgic.
Sadness: This creates unhappiness and a tendency toward maudlin introspection.
Translations, edited by Robin Peel and Daniel Maudlin.
Maudlin is trained as a certified public accountant.

The cover also sounds more passionate and emotional, to the point where it transcends the rather mawkish lyrics.
The fruit is oonmdered too sweet and mawkish by many, while some prefer it to the banana.
Beautifully written, tender without being mawkish, it aufb00ects me deeply every time I see it performed.
Which makes it feel even more mawkish and sentimental than it already is.
They are fine and virile, with underlying sentiment, yet free from the faintest suspicion of mawkish sentimentality.
Emma, for they merge in mawkish amalgams that attest to the implausibility of their combination.
The Jazz Singer is mawkish, crudely filmed, and full of schmaltz.
The gorgeous song is emotionally powerful without being mawkish.
Arcadian spirit was anything but mawkish and affected.
There was nothing mawkish or staged about it.