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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "maudlin" in a sentence

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    maudlin


    1. ’ I replied, and he sighs, ‘Now don’t you start getting maudlin too! One of us in the doldrums is enough!’


    2. Honestly, Sarah, you are getting maudlin! How absurd can you get?


    3. Mary seemed Maudlin


    4. He was becoming maudlin, in need of his drink


    5. I really miss her so much that I sometimes get a little maudlin when talking about her


    6. Bright future” he replied and instantly turned a bit maudlin; a subtle emotion on his face


    7. At once ferocious and maudlin, I was made to murder my uncle with no extenuating circumstances whatever; Millwood put me down in argument, on every occasion; it became sheer monomania in my master's daughter to care a button for me; and all I can say for my gasping and procrastinating conduct on the fatal morning, is, that it was worthy of the general feebleness of my character


    8. Lennie Fiddler played sad tunes on his five-stringed instrument, and the mourners became tearful and maudlin as they got drunker


    9. He sat on a stool singing one maudlin ballad after another: “Don’t Worry About Me,” “Here’s That Rainy Day,” and “This Is All I Ask


    10. “You never seem more married than when you listen to that maudlin stuff

    11. That said, she would have a lot more fun with the thrill-seeking Winters than she ever did with the often maudlin Natasha Lytess


    12. No maudlin weakness on your part shall save him


    13. He never looks me quite in the face now, unless he is very drunk or maudlin; but yesterday he looked at me in such a way that a shiver went all down my back


    14. At the close of “Alice-Sit-by-the-Fire” one wondered what Amy, after her marriage to the man in the case, would think of the maudlin situation


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    Synonyms for "maudlin"

    bathetic drippy hokey kitschy maudlin mawkish mushy sappy schmaltzy schmalzy sentimental slushy soppy soupy over-emotional gushing insipid tear-jerking

    "maudlin" definitions

    effusively or insincerely emotional