Vocabulary Word
Word: maudlin
Definition: effusively sentimental
Definition: effusively sentimental
Sentences Containing 'maudlin'
Alas, there was small room for hope Backus's eyes were heavy and bloodshot, his sweaty face was crimson, his speech maudlin and thick, his body sawed drunkenly about with the weaving motion of the ship.
That I retired to bed in a most maudlin state of mind, and got up in a crisis of feeble infatuation.
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