Sample Sentences formaudlin (editor-reviewed)
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After a few drinks, she became maudlin, tearfully reminiscing about her college days and lost friendships.maudlin = effusively self-pitying, sad, or sentimental
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In part, it was an emotional liability, flaring anger one moment, maudlin sentimentality the next. (source)
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I don't want to think of you getting all maudlin. (source)maudlin = excessively self-pitying, sad, or sentimental
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Maudlin, self-indulgent, tasteless. (source)Maudlin = effusively self-pitying, sad, or sentimental
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When he was sure no one would see him do anything so maudlin, Glen Papineau raised his bottle of Leiney's to the sky and let the tears come again. (source)maudlin = effusively sentimental or sad
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Like a White Russian drinking tea in Paris, marooned in the twentieth century, I wander back, try to regain those distant pathways; I become too maudlin, lose myself. (source)maudlin = excessively self-pitying, sad, or sentimental
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It staggered drunkenly and stared at him with maudlin selfpity that began to turn to hate. (source)maudlin = excessive self-pitying
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She tried to struggle up but slipped and fell again and lay there screaming maudlinly.† (source)
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The conversation was taking too maudlin a turn for him. (source)maudlin = self-pitying, sad, or sentimental
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I wanted to write a farewell column to Marley, but I was afraid all my emotion would pour out into a gushy, maudlin piece of self-indulgence that would only humiliate me. (source)maudlin = effusively self-pitying, sad, or sentimental
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It occurs to her that maybe Terry's reluctance to take on this project has as much to do with avoiding this kind of maudlin moment as avoiding the work itself.† (source)
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He was in the maudlin confidential stage.† (source)
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"Would you very much mind not doing that?" said Grizel to the columnist, who had been attempting in a maudlin manner to twist her wrist; "I don't happen to enjoy it."† (source)
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"I always think," the Director was continuing in the same rather maudlin tone, when he was interrupted by a loud boo-hooing.† (source)
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"We're getting maudlin here," Sim broke in, knocking his glass against the table.† (source)
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Mary would comment again how talented and skilled Sunny was, how dexterous and precocious, and I never thought to correct her appraisals, even though the performances were in fact maudlin and probably insulting to her, as they certainly were to me.† (source)
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