Hi Vikki, I have a question. Today at my work there was a very sad song on the radio. My fellow worker described it as a suicidical music. I used a word mawkish. He didn’t know this word. I live in Ireland. Later I asked the rest of my workfellows, no one has ever heard this word. Is it a common word in your area?

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I had an aunt who used the term, and I live in the central USA.  Overly sweet, when people cry at a movie, for instance,
she would say it was ‘mawkish” - so the term is used.