maudlin English

Meaning maudlin meaning

What does maudlin mean?

maudlin

— adjective (= bathetic, mushy, schmaltzy, sentimental, slushy) effusively or insincerely emotional a bathetic novel maudlin expressions of sympathy mushy effusiveness a schmaltzy song sentimental soap operas slushy poetry

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mawkish

sentimental

soppy

slushy

soupy

schmalzy

mushy

kitschy

drippy

bathetic

weepy

teary

tearful

schmaltzy

lachrymose

hokey

whinging

whingeing

weeping

tearfulness

tearfully sentimental

sniveler

sentimentality

querulous

overstrung

oversensitive

misery

hypersensitive

gushing

grizzler

gooey

emotional

effusively sentimental

crybaby

corny