maudlin
/MAWD-lin/adjectiveself-pityingly or tearfully sentimental
“The toast turned maudlin after the second bottle.”
- Synonyms
- mawkish, weepy, sentimental
- Antonyms
- unsentimental, stoic
- Memory hook
- Magdalene painted weeping: tears past taste.
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