maudlin
adjective
tearfully or weakly emotional; foolishly sentimental.
maudlinly
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a word derived from
maudlin.
Example Sentences
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She tried to struggle up but slipped and fell again and lay there screaming maudlinly.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
As the dog, obediently, dropped to the ground, the Master bent to examine the groaning and maudlinly weeping Rhuburger.
From Further Adventures of Lad by Albert Payson Terhune
The men of the National Observer and the Pall Mall were such keen fighters that they could not be kind or sentimental—and they grew maudlinly sentimental over Steevens's engagement—without a fight for it.
From Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Himself a former cowboy, he writes cowboy stories which prove that cowboy stories need not be as false, and as maudlinly romantic as most cowboy stories manage to be.
From Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street by Julian Street
The men raved like wild creatures against Rathbawne and John Barclay, recounting maudlinly the destitution of their families, and, anon, flaming forth into cries for vengeance.
From The Lieutenant-Governor A Novel by Guy Wetmore Carryl
