Mawkish
mawkish: [ˈmôkiSH] ADJECTIVE, sentimental in a feeble or sickly way. Context: Our national press is a joke. Vain, languid, excitable, morbid, duplicitous, cheap, insular, mawkish, and possessed of a chronic self-obsession that would make, Dorian Gray blush, .... Source: National review; Feb. 11, 2019; p 29; Bad, Press by Charles C. W. Cooke.