mawkish

The jibe is off-key too because Wilde himself was hardly immune to the sentimental and even the mawkish.

But of late he had developed different notions, and had come to pride himself on his freedom from all mawkish sentiment.

Pope's translation is mawkish, and his "adieu, my dear, adieu!"

He felt a nervous thrill going down his spine as he plunged into the mawkish words.