| 单词 | maudlin |
| 释义 | maudlin (once / 5000 pages) adj You can use maudlin to describe something that brings tears to your eyes, or makes you feel very emotional. Tearjerkers like "Forrest Gump" and "Titanic" can be described as maudlin. Maudlin was a form of the name Mary Magdalene, a character from the Bible represented in paintings as a weeping sinner asking forgiveness from Jesus. Maudlin is often paired with sentimental, or even schlocky, to describe cry-fests, as in "I can't watch another second of that overly-sentimental, maudlin soap opera. Turn that schlock off." WORD FAMILYmaudlin: maudlinly USAGE EXAMPLESHe was also depressive, maudlin, sentimental and he drank like a fish. Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016) But Ms. Kilmartin touched on the toughest moments of mourning without a note of the maudlin. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) Hunter is accused of killing correction officer Lisa Maudlin and injuring another officer in an attack Sunday at the Miller County jail in Texarkana. Washington Times(Dec 19, 2016) adj effusively or insincerely emotional maudlin expressions of sympathy Syn bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, mawkish, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy emotional of more than usual emotion |
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