Sample Sentences for
maudlin
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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
  • The conversation was taking too maudlin a turn for him.  (source)
    maudlin = self-pitying, sad, or sentimental
  • Maudlin, self-indulgent, tasteless.  (source)
    Maudlin = effusively self-pitying, sad, or sentimental
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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
  • She tried to struggle up but slipped and fell again and lay there screaming maudlinly.†  (source)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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)
  • He was in the maudlin confidential stage.†  (source)
  • "I always think," the Director was continuing in the same rather maudlin tone, when he was interrupted by a loud boo-hooing.†  (source)
  • "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)
  • "We're getting maudlin here," Sim broke in, knocking his glass against the table.†  (source)
  • He pauses-then with maudlin humor, in a ham-actor tone.†  (source)
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