maudlin
maudlin
Definition
maud·lin (môd′lin)
adjective
- foolishly and tearfully or weakly sentimental
- tearfully sentimental from too much liquor
Etymology: after Maudlin, Magdalene < ME Maudeleyne < OFr Madeleine: Magdalene was often represented with eyes red from weeping
maudlin
Synonyms
maudlin
modif.
maudlin
Usage Examples
Modifying Another Word
- too: But - I don't want to get too maudlin.
- never: This play maybe sad in tone, but is never maudlin or cynical.
- rather: In the early 1990s, it was easy for one to get rather maudlin about the new cars that were being introduced.
- even: February 14, it would appear, is a day to be soppy, or maybe even maudlin.
Used with adjective complement
- get: But - I don't want to get too maudlin.
- become: This may seem a little callous, but these whimsical remembrances of " Unc " have quickly become maudlin.
Modifies a noun
- sentiment: I give him space, I try not to be controlling and I try not to smother him emotionally, no maudlin sentiment.
- rumination: It's a maudlin rumination on loathsome rich kids and their disgusting, ill-mannered behavior, and their even more disgusting, ill-mannered parents.
- song: The ep some might say mini-album is full to the gills with proper introverted, sometimes downright maudlin, pop songs.
- regret: There's no self-pity here, or maudlin regret.
- rubbish: Or the second biggest, after the bit about " Stars " being maudlin rubbish.
- affair: It's a most maudlin affair, to be sure, a cabaret of pain.
