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Meanings of maudlin in English
Usage of maudlin in English
1
However, it did seem to bring him out of his maudlin humour.
2
She sighed, aware that the drink had sent her into self-pitying maudlin.
3
There shall be permitted no maudlin sentiment of pity in this undertaking.
4
They stopped at the gate to bid each other a maudlin farewell.
5
Until you chuck that maudlin bunch of slush and scenery at us.
6
He grew maudlin, familiar, could hardly see the cards or sit upright.
7
Stimcoe had been maudlin drunk for a week and could not appear.
8
At this he broke down and wept maudlin tears, disgusting to witness.
9
Don't feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature.
10
I should have guessed it, with all the publicity, that maudlin spectacle.
11
I'm maudlin now and convinced I'm the loneliest girl in the world.
12
Nothing seemed quite as terrible, and she wouldn't let him get maudlin.
13
At 16, Howard only listened to maudlin singer-songwriters and hated anything electronic.
14
There was a maudlin, missish, namby-mamby sentimentality about them which disgusted her.
15
There is a temptation to become a little maudlin about all this.
16
Is this a time for wholesale trust, for a maudlin universal sympathy?
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Maudlin through the time
Maudlin across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
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