maudlin

maudlin
    adj 1: effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel";
           "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness";
           "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy
           poetry" [syn: {bathetic}, {drippy}, {hokey}, {maudlin},
           {mawkish}, {kitschy}, {mushy}, {schmaltzy}, {schmalzy},
           {sentimental}, {soppy}, {soupy}, {slushy}]
    

Maudlin \Maud"lin\, Maudeline \Maude"line\, n. (Bot.)
   An aromatic composite herb, the costmary; also, the South
   European {Achillea Ageratum}, a kind of yarrow.
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Maudlin \Maud"lin\, a. [From Maudlin, a contr. of Magdalen, OE.
   Maudeleyne, who is drawn by painters with eyes swelled and
   red with weeping.]
   1. Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears;
      excessively sentimental; weak and silly. "Maudlin eyes."
      --Dryden. "Maudlin eloquence." --Roscommon. "A maudlin
      poetess." --Pope. "Maudlin crowd." --Southey.
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   2. Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled; given to drunkenness.
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            Maudlin Clarence in his malmsey butt. --Byron.
      [1913 Webster] Maudlin
    

111 Moby Thesaurus words for "maudlin":
      addled, apish, asinine, bathetic, batty, beery, befooled,
      befuddled, beguiled, bemused, besotted, blind drunk, brainless,
      buffoonish, cloying, cockeyed, confused, crapulent, crapulous,
      crazy, credulous, daffy, daft, dazed, dizzy, doting, drenched,
      drunk, drunken, dumb, far-gone, fatuitous, fatuous, flaky,
      flustered, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, fou, fuddled, full,
      futile, gaga, gay, giddy, glorious, gooey, goofy, gulled, gushing,
      happy, idiotic, imbecile, in liquor, inane, inebriate, inebriated,
      inebrious, inept, infatuated, insane, intoxicated, jolly, kooky,
      lachrymose, loony, mad, mawkish, mellow, merry, moronic, muddled,
      mushy, namby-pamby, nappy, nostalgic, nostomanic, nutty,
      overemotional, oversentimental, oversentimentalized, reeling,
      romantic, sappy, screwy, senseless, sentimental, sentimentalized,
      shikker, silly, sloppy, slushy, sodden, soft, soppy, sotted, soupy,
      sticky, stupid, tear-jerking, tearful, teary, thoughtless, tiddly,
      tipsy, under the influence, wacky, weepy, wet, witless