maudlin

Whenever the script seems ready to surrender to maudlin excess, Gosling and McAdams are there to pull it back.

Williams interviewed and profiled four D-Day veterans, showing his sensitive side without ever seeming maudlin.

Also, beyond incompetence, he was meant to be weak, vain and maudlin.

This is a book that cries out like one of his maudlin ditties to be edited.

Before Tom's selfishness, Justice threw away her scales and became maudlin sentiment.

Both were maudlin drunk and each was trying to impress the other with his wisdom, his repartee and boldness.

On the crest of some higher waves of consciousness were borne to him drunken shouts, maudlin blasphemies.

The word maudlin suggests the idea of being ready to weep unnecessarily.

It's your maudlin gospel-millers who get scared at the chance of kicking.