Word of the Day – Maudlin

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