1. maudlin - Noun
2. maudlin - Adjective
3. maudlin - Adjective Satellite
4. Maudlin - Proper noun
Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly.
Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled; given to drunkenness.
Alt. of Maudeline
Source: Webster's dictionaryStiff-necked America, in flagrant rebellion against God, is indulging a caterwauling orgy of sinful maudlin cinementality on the 5th anniversary of God's 9/11 vengeance upon this evil nation for its sodomite sins! Fred Phelps
It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine. Joseph Conrad
Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality, but by the higher duty I owe to myself. Eugene V. Debs
I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't like to get Maudlin. And I have a tendency towards it. Gene Wilder
My father always read obituaries to me out loud, not because he was maudlin or morbid, but because they were mini biographies. Bill Paxton
You've either got to find a way to make your continuing characters insteresting without making them maudlin or overwrought, or you've got to put more emphasis on the suspects. Jane Haddam