maudlin

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.