Definition of maudlin in English:

maudlin

adjective ˈmɔːdlɪnˈmɔdlən

1Self-pityingly or tearfully sentimental.
a bout of maudlin self-pity
Example sentencesExamples
- The film is directed and photographed deftly, particularly insofar as it touches the sentimental without clutching the maudlin.
- I think we should be as maudlin as we like and embrace our sentimentalism.
- It could have been maudlin and self-pitying, and none of that was there.
- You can get as maudlin, dramatic and sentimental as you wish, without anyone telling you to snap out of it, cheer up, or cool out.
- Much more than maudlin sentimentality was involved in the effusive tributes.
- It's an interesting dynamic which I'd like to explore further when Alex isn't so emotional and even maudlin.
- He is by turns violent, sentimental, maudlin, self-pitying, and sadistic, and has a fine line in rhetoric.
- The emotion is real and affecting, but never maudlin or self-indulgent.
- Her poems, a mixture of maudlin sentiment, misspellings and malevolence, are staples of the sites she visits.
- I don't want my work to be thought of as maudlin or overly sentimental.
- She didn't say anything after my sudden outburst and I assumed I had somehow made her uncomfortable with my maudlin sentiments.
- The work is the definition of honest, trusting its material and endlessly accurate in its sense of the human condition without succumbing to bitterness or the maudlin.
- Maybe it would have been better if I had set my mind on writing a maudlin, self-pitying note that I would have been able to throw away the next day.
- Does it bother you that there's also a maudlin aspect?
- Some say that they were obvious or maudlin or too sentimental.
- I spent the day under a cloud of self-pity and maudlin nostalgia.
- I really don't understand the maudlin sentimentality that accompanies any discussion of these events.
- He also wanted to ‘break through the maudlin emotionalism that was surrounding this subject.’
- Joking about the troubles of parenthood is how we share its exquisite joys without lapsing into maudlin sentimentality.
- Certainly, some church observances are thick with sentiment that borders on maudlin.
Synonyms
sentimental, over-sentimental, emotional, overemotional, tearful, lachrymose
informal weepy
1. 1.1 (of a book, film, or song) highly sentimental.
  a maudlin jukebox tune
  Example sentencesExamples
  Still, it's otherwise a very observant film, only rarely maudlin.
  For a while it became the archetypal maudlin pub drinking song: imagine it lugubriously belted out at closing time with a skinful of beer lubricating every voice.
  The story in this film is a bit maudlin; we are seeing the end of a brilliant career rather than an ongoing saga.
  They had one crude but catchy hit followed by a maudlin and sappy second single.
  Never maudlin, never cloying, the story is that of a judo champion struck down in a road accident and almost overnight becoming a paraplegic in a wheelchair.
  It is as maudlin and sentimental as movies come, and this hopeless romantic wouldn't have it any other way.
  This is a maudlin film about life, love and… well, you get the picture.
  There is a great deal of humor that keeps the tale from becoming too saccharine or maudlin, but the heavy pull at the heart and the emotions cannot be denied.
  I nodded, smiling now at the cheesiness of the moment, particularly as a maudlin pop song came on the jukebox.
  Instead of tidy, maudlin conclusions, the film is handed an ambiguous closure.
  This film is maudlin where the original was tough, antiseptic where the original was gritty.
  It's a painfully bittersweet film, but told without any of the plodding, maudlin notes that in less sturdy hands could have sunk the entire endeavour.
  The problem is lack of variety: one song merges indistinguishably into another, the surfeit of emotion sounding more maudlin by the minute.
  Its massive irony is that the magically maudlin piano refrain and chronically depressed vocal that gives this song all the power, soul and verve that are so glaringly missing from the rest of the album.
  The film became too maudlin for its own good in its final moments.
  Look, it sounds impossibly maudlin if you read the synopsis of this film.
  Sadly, it ends up being little more than a maudlin mess - a film that will leave almost no one satisfied.
  Depending on your mood, you'll enjoy it as a sobbing tearjerker or loathe its sugary, contrived and maudlin morality laid on with a trowel.
  However, she left no mark on film history, not one of her films is a work of art and nowhere did she leave an indelible image of an artist who transcended her maudlin material.
  When will documentarians learn that much of this material can stand on its own, without an alternately plucky and maudlin background score, telling us what to feel?
  Synonyms
  mawkish, sentimental, over-sentimental, cloying, sickly, saccharine, sugary, syrupy, sickening, nauseating, banal, trite
  British twee
  informal mushy, slushy, sloppy, schmaltzy, weepy, cutesy, lovey-dovey, gooey, drippy, sloshy, soupy, treacly, cheesy, corny, icky, sick-making, toe-curling
  British informal soppy
  North American informal cornball, sappy, hokey, three-hanky

Origin

Late Middle English (as a noun denoting Mary Magdalen): from Old French Madeleine, from Church Latin Magdalena (see magdalen). The current sense derives from allusion to pictures of Mary Magdalen weeping.

Rhymes

Magdalen

Definition of maudlin in US English:

maudlin

adjectiveˈmɔdlənˈmôdlən

Self-pityingly or tearfully sentimental, often through drunkenness.
the drink made her maudlin
a maudlin ballad
Example sentencesExamples
- He also wanted to ‘break through the maudlin emotionalism that was surrounding this subject.’
- Joking about the troubles of parenthood is how we share its exquisite joys without lapsing into maudlin sentimentality.
- You can get as maudlin, dramatic and sentimental as you wish, without anyone telling you to snap out of it, cheer up, or cool out.
- She didn't say anything after my sudden outburst and I assumed I had somehow made her uncomfortable with my maudlin sentiments.
- Her poems, a mixture of maudlin sentiment, misspellings and malevolence, are staples of the sites she visits.
- Maybe it would have been better if I had set my mind on writing a maudlin, self-pitying note that I would have been able to throw away the next day.
- The work is the definition of honest, trusting its material and endlessly accurate in its sense of the human condition without succumbing to bitterness or the maudlin.
- Some say that they were obvious or maudlin or too sentimental.
- Certainly, some church observances are thick with sentiment that borders on maudlin.
- He is by turns violent, sentimental, maudlin, self-pitying, and sadistic, and has a fine line in rhetoric.
- The emotion is real and affecting, but never maudlin or self-indulgent.
- I spent the day under a cloud of self-pity and maudlin nostalgia.
- The film is directed and photographed deftly, particularly insofar as it touches the sentimental without clutching the maudlin.
- I don't want my work to be thought of as maudlin or overly sentimental.
- I really don't understand the maudlin sentimentality that accompanies any discussion of these events.
- It could have been maudlin and self-pitying, and none of that was there.
- Does it bother you that there's also a maudlin aspect?
- Much more than maudlin sentimentality was involved in the effusive tributes.
- I think we should be as maudlin as we like and embrace our sentimentalism.
- It's an interesting dynamic which I'd like to explore further when Alex isn't so emotional and even maudlin.
Synonyms
sentimental, over-sentimental, emotional, overemotional, tearful, lachrymose

Origin

Late Middle English (as a noun denoting Mary Magdalen): from Old French Madeleine, from Church Latin Magdalena (see magdalene). The current sense derives from allusion to pictures of Mary Magdalen weeping.

单词	maudlin
释义	Definition of maudlin in English: maudlin adjective ˈmɔːdlɪnˈmɔdlən 1Self-pityingly or tearfully sentimental. a bout of maudlin self-pity Example sentencesExamples The film is directed and photographed deftly, particularly insofar as it touches the sentimental without clutching the maudlin. I think we should be as maudlin as we like and embrace our sentimentalism. It could have been maudlin and self-pitying, and none of that was there. You can get as maudlin, dramatic and sentimental as you wish, without anyone telling you to snap out of it, cheer up, or cool out. Much more than maudlin sentimentality was involved in the effusive tributes. It's an interesting dynamic which I'd like to explore further when Alex isn't so emotional and even maudlin. He is by turns violent, sentimental, maudlin, self-pitying, and sadistic, and has a fine line in rhetoric. The emotion is real and affecting, but never maudlin or self-indulgent. Her poems, a mixture of maudlin sentiment, misspellings and malevolence, are staples of the sites she visits. I don't want my work to be thought of as maudlin or overly sentimental. She didn't say anything after my sudden outburst and I assumed I had somehow made her uncomfortable with my maudlin sentiments. The work is the definition of honest, trusting its material and endlessly accurate in its sense of the human condition without succumbing to bitterness or the maudlin. Maybe it would have been better if I had set my mind on writing a maudlin, self-pitying note that I would have been able to throw away the next day. Does it bother you that there's also a maudlin aspect? Some say that they were obvious or maudlin or too sentimental. I spent the day under a cloud of self-pity and maudlin nostalgia. I really don't understand the maudlin sentimentality that accompanies any discussion of these events. He also wanted to ‘break through the maudlin emotionalism that was surrounding this subject.’ Joking about the troubles of parenthood is how we share its exquisite joys without lapsing into maudlin sentimentality. Certainly, some church observances are thick with sentiment that borders on maudlin. Synonyms sentimental, over-sentimental, emotional, overemotional, tearful, lachrymose informal weepy 1.1 (of a book, film, or song) highly sentimental. a maudlin jukebox tune Example sentencesExamples Still, it's otherwise a very observant film, only rarely maudlin. For a while it became the archetypal maudlin pub drinking song: imagine it lugubriously belted out at closing time with a skinful of beer lubricating every voice. The story in this film is a bit maudlin; we are seeing the end of a brilliant career rather than an ongoing saga. They had one crude but catchy hit followed by a maudlin and sappy second single. Never maudlin, never cloying, the story is that of a judo champion struck down in a road accident and almost overnight becoming a paraplegic in a wheelchair. It is as maudlin and sentimental as movies come, and this hopeless romantic wouldn't have it any other way. This is a maudlin film about life, love and… well, you get the picture. There is a great deal of humor that keeps the tale from becoming too saccharine or maudlin, but the heavy pull at the heart and the emotions cannot be denied. I nodded, smiling now at the cheesiness of the moment, particularly as a maudlin pop song came on the jukebox. Instead of tidy, maudlin conclusions, the film is handed an ambiguous closure. This film is maudlin where the original was tough, antiseptic where the original was gritty. It's a painfully bittersweet film, but told without any of the plodding, maudlin notes that in less sturdy hands could have sunk the entire endeavour. The problem is lack of variety: one song merges indistinguishably into another, the surfeit of emotion sounding more maudlin by the minute. Its massive irony is that the magically maudlin piano refrain and chronically depressed vocal that gives this song all the power, soul and verve that are so glaringly missing from the rest of the album. The film became too maudlin for its own good in its final moments. Look, it sounds impossibly maudlin if you read the synopsis of this film. Sadly, it ends up being little more than a maudlin mess - a film that will leave almost no one satisfied. Depending on your mood, you'll enjoy it as a sobbing tearjerker or loathe its sugary, contrived and maudlin morality laid on with a trowel. However, she left no mark on film history, not one of her films is a work of art and nowhere did she leave an indelible image of an artist who transcended her maudlin material. When will documentarians learn that much of this material can stand on its own, without an alternately plucky and maudlin background score, telling us what to feel? Synonyms mawkish, sentimental, over-sentimental, cloying, sickly, saccharine, sugary, syrupy, sickening, nauseating, banal, trite British twee informal mushy, slushy, sloppy, schmaltzy, weepy, cutesy, lovey-dovey, gooey, drippy, sloshy, soupy, treacly, cheesy, corny, icky, sick-making, toe-curling British informal soppy North American informal cornball, sappy, hokey, three-hanky Origin Late Middle English (as a noun denoting Mary Magdalen): from Old French Madeleine, from Church Latin Magdalena (see magdalen). The current sense derives from allusion to pictures of Mary Magdalen weeping. Rhymes Magdalen Definition of maudlin in US English: maudlin adjectiveˈmɔdlənˈmôdlən Self-pityingly or tearfully sentimental, often through drunkenness. the drink made her maudlin a maudlin ballad Example sentencesExamples He also wanted to ‘break through the maudlin emotionalism that was surrounding this subject.’ Joking about the troubles of parenthood is how we share its exquisite joys without lapsing into maudlin sentimentality. You can get as maudlin, dramatic and sentimental as you wish, without anyone telling you to snap out of it, cheer up, or cool out. She didn't say anything after my sudden outburst and I assumed I had somehow made her uncomfortable with my maudlin sentiments. Her poems, a mixture of maudlin sentiment, misspellings and malevolence, are staples of the sites she visits. Maybe it would have been better if I had set my mind on writing a maudlin, self-pitying note that I would have been able to throw away the next day. The work is the definition of honest, trusting its material and endlessly accurate in its sense of the human condition without succumbing to bitterness or the maudlin. Some say that they were obvious or maudlin or too sentimental. Certainly, some church observances are thick with sentiment that borders on maudlin. He is by turns violent, sentimental, maudlin, self-pitying, and sadistic, and has a fine line in rhetoric. The emotion is real and affecting, but never maudlin or self-indulgent. I spent the day under a cloud of self-pity and maudlin nostalgia. The film is directed and photographed deftly, particularly insofar as it touches the sentimental without clutching the maudlin. I don't want my work to be thought of as maudlin or overly sentimental. I really don't understand the maudlin sentimentality that accompanies any discussion of these events. It could have been maudlin and self-pitying, and none of that was there. Does it bother you that there's also a maudlin aspect? Much more than maudlin sentimentality was involved in the effusive tributes. I think we should be as maudlin as we like and embrace our sentimentalism. It's an interesting dynamic which I'd like to explore further when Alex isn't so emotional and even maudlin. Synonyms sentimental, over-sentimental, emotional, overemotional, tearful, lachrymose Origin Late Middle English (as a noun denoting Mary Magdalen): from Old French Madeleine, from Church Latin Magdalena (see magdalene). The current sense derives from allusion to pictures of Mary Magdalen weeping.
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