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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. effusively or insincerely emotional;
- Example: "a bathetic novel"
- Example: "maudlin expressions of sympathy"
- Example: "mushy effusiveness"
- Example: "a schmaltzy song"
- Example: "sentimental soap operas"
- Example: "slushy poetry"
[syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.
      [1913 Webster]

            Maudlin Clarence in his malmsey butt. --Byron.
      [1913 Webster] Maudlin


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

maudlin
    adj 1: effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel";
           "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness";
           "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy
           poetry" [syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin,
           mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy,
           sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy]