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Maudlin   /mˈɔdlɪn/   Listen
adjective
Maudlin  adj.  
1.
Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly. "Maudlin eyes." "Maudlin eloquence." "A maudlin poetess." "Maudlin crowd."
2.
Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled; given to drunkenness. "Maudlin Clarence in his malmsey butt."


noun
Maudeline, Maudlin  n.  (Bot.) An aromatic composite herb, the costmary; also, the South European Achillea Ageratum, a kind of yarrow.





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"Maudlin" Quotes from Famous Books



... He protested with maudlin earnestness that I was entirely mistaken,—that I was intoxicated; then asked me to swear eternal secrecy, and promised to disclose the mystery to me. I pledged myself, of course, to all. With an ...
— Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes - Mystic-Humorous Stories • Various
... bow and air of maudlin humility, "I have to apologise for requiring you to start out on a journey at such a late hour. Duty is often an ungracious master. Luckily, your drive is not to be a very extended one—only to the city; and you'll have company in the carriage. ...
— The Free Lances - A Romance of the Mexican Valley • Mayne Reid
... good-natured, rough-and-tumble wrestle as he and another lumber jack grappled. The Clown had thrown his antagonist fairly, the lumberjack's shoulders striking the rough floor with a whack that made things jingle. The next moment the two had treated one another at the bar, and with a mutual, though maudlin appreciation of each other had gone back to their respective chairs among the line tilted against ...
— The Lady of Big Shanty • Frank Berkeley Smith
... than any body to see the event, remained coolly on the stage to hear the story. The Queen's maid of honour entered without her handkerchief, and with her hair most artfully undressed, and reeling as if she was maudlin, sobbed Out a long narrative, that did not prove true; while Narbas, with all the good breeding in the world, was more attentive to her fright than to what had happened. So much for propriety. Now for probability. Voltaire has published a tragedy, called "Les Gu'e,bres." Two Roman ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole Volume 3 • Horace Walpole
... Sibley in tones of maudlin sentiment, "you are cruel to deprive me of your cousin's society even for a moment. I'll forgive you this once, but never again." And then he availed himself of the opportunity to pay ...
— A Face Illumined • E. P. Roe


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