[maw-kish] adjective sentimental in a feeble or sickly way • archaic having a faint sickly flavor : the mawkish smell of warm beer

I don't think I understand the definition. Or, maybe I do. Aren't a lot of greeting cards mawkish?

Who would give that card? Wait, who made that card? Probably a very nice person. A person who loves hearts and roses and rhymes and sparkles. 

I tried to make a mawkish card. 

That's Hugh Beaumont, the kindly father from Leave it to Beaver.

Hugh hated that he was typecast and later opened a Christmas tree farm in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. I don't think he opened the Christmas tree farm because he hated that he was typecast. But I don't know - he was obviously a complicated man.