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"ref": "2014 August 11, Dave Itzkoff, “Robin Williams, Oscar-Winning Comedian, Dies at 63 in Suspected Suicide”, in New York Times",
"text": "Some of Mr. Williams’s performances were criticized for a mawkish sentimentality, like “Patch Adams,” a 1998 film that once again cast him as a good-hearted doctor, and “Bicentennial Man,” a 1999 science-fiction feature in which he played an android.",
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"ref": "2019 May 12, Adrian Searle, “Mawkish monuments and the beach from hell: our verdict on the Venice Biennale”, in The Guardian",
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"ref": "April 5 2022, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair",
"text": "The tabloids branded him James Hewitt forevermore as the “love rat,” and Pasternak was excoriated for peddling mawkish fantasy.\n(Adapted from the book The Palace Papers, published 2022 by Penguin Books.)",
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"Feeling sick, queasy."
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"(archaic or dialectal) Feeling sick, queasy."
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"Sickening or insipid in taste or smell."
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"(archaic) Sickening or insipid in taste or smell."
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