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Thesaurus: maudlin

Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly.

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  1. a. Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly.
  2. a. Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled; given to drunkenness.
  3. n. Alt. of Maudeline
  4. adj. effusively or insincerely emotional
  5. 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. 2. Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled; given to drunkenness. Maudlin Clarence in his malmsey butt. Byron. An aromatic composite herb, the costmary; also, the South European Achillea Ageratum, a kind of yarrow.
  6. An aromatic composite herb, the costmary; also, the SouthEuropean Achillea Ageratum, a kind of yarrow.
  7. j:100 s effusively or insincerely emotional