Difference between Mawkish and Sentimental

MAWKISH vs SENTIMENTAL: ADJECTIVE

Given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality
Having, showing, or caused by emotion, especially tender or affectionate feeling.
Having, showing, or caused by strong or extravagant tenderness or sadness, often in an idealized way.
Having, expressing, or containing a sentiment or sentiments; abounding with moral reflections; containing a moral reflection; didactic.
Inclined to sentiment; having an excess of sentiment or sensibility; indulging the sensibilities for their own sake; artificially or affectedly tender; -- often in a reproachful sense.
Addressed or pleasing to the emotions only, usually to the weaker and the unregulated emotions.
Characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion
Derived from emotion rather than reason
Romantic
Effusively or insincerely emotional

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

Synonyms Romantic, Sentimental (see romantic), hysterical, gushing, etc. (in style).
Containing or characterized by sentiment; appealing to the feelings rather than to reason: as, a sentimental song; sentimental works.
Swayed, or apt to be swayed, by sentiment; of a tender and susceptible heart; mawkishly tender or susceptible: as, a sentimental person.
Of or pertaining to sentimentalism.

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

Passionate, Sweet, Emotive, Romantic, Corny, Poignant, Schmalzy, Slushy, Tender, Mushy, Bathetic, Schmaltzy, Emotional, Mawkish, Maudlin

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

Passionate, Sweet, Emotive, Romantic, Corny, Poignant, Schmalzy, Slushy, Tender, Mushy, Bathetic, Schmaltzy, Emotional, Mawkish, Maudlin

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.

Share a funny, sentimental or musical birthday wish.
What are the best sentimental gifts for girlfriends?
Capcom Arcade Stadium Makes a Sentimental Space For.
They want to read a more sentimental news.
Of course, there are the more sentimental acknowledgments.
Thank you for visiting The Sentimental Charm Co.
Small items of sentimental value, jewellery, photographs, etc.
"My garden is kind of sentimental," he said.
The circumstances were rather sentimental and somewhat melodramatic.
Butthe sentimental value of the property cannot drive ourdecision in this case, because sentimental value is not abasis for construing the Bankruptcy Code.