- Adjective: Maudlin
- tearfully or weakly emotional; foolishly sentimental: a maudlin story of a little orphan and her lost dog.
- foolishly or mawkishly sentimental because of drunkenness.
- Synonyms:
- mawkish
- mushy
- sentimental
- weepy
- befuddled
- histrionic
- insipid
- lachrymose
- schmaltzy
- tear-jerking
- Usage:
- “That’s because you were too busy being maudlin in your last post, Curmudgeon-in-Chief”
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