Found 2 items, similar to maudlin.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: maudlin
maudlin
adj : effusively or insincerely emotional;
“a bathetic novel”;
“maudlin expressons of sympathy”;
“mushy effusiveness”;
“a schmaltzy song”;
“sentimental soap operas”;
“slushy
poetry” [syn:
bathetic,
drippy,
hokey,
mawkish,
mushy,
schmaltzy,
schmalzy,
sentimental,
slushy]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Maudlin
Maudlin
\Maud"lin\, a. [From Maudlin, a contr. of Magdalen, OE.
Maudeleyne, who is drawn by painters with eyes swelled and
red with weeping.]
1. Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears;
excessively sentimental; weak and silly.
“Maudlin eyes.”
--Dryden.
“Maudlin eloquence.” --Roscommon.
“A maudlin
poetess.” --Pope.
“Maudlin crowd.” --Southey.
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2. Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled; given to drunkenness.
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Maudlin Clarence in his malmsey butt. --Byron.
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Maudlin
\Maud"lin\, Maudeline
\Maude"line\, n. (Bot.)
An aromatic composite herb, the costmary; also, the South
European
Achillea Ageratum, a kind of yarrow.
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