Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being maudlin; manifestation of sickly sentimentality.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A maudlin state.
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- noun A
maudlin condition.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I was an angry young Californian back then & wanted to be aligned with those not easily cowed by media maudlinism.
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At this precise period of his existence, Mr. Benjamin Allen had perhaps a greater predisposition to maudlinism than he had ever known before; the cause of which malady was briefly this.
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For once, all the major acceptance speeches were more than adequate to the occasion, escaping the extremes of maudlinism and mock modesty.
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For in such things sentiment runs too closely parallel to sentimentality, -- moderation becomes maudlinism, -- and one enters the caste of those who tell anecdotes of children, and the latest symptoms of their physical ills.
Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919
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At this precise period of his existence, Mr. Benjamin Allen had perhaps a greater predisposition to maudlinism than he had ever known before; the cause of which malady was briefly this.
The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens 1841
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At this precise period of his existence, Mr. Benjamin Allen had perhaps a greater predisposition to maudlinism than he had ever known before; the cause of which malady was briefly this.
The Pickwick papers 1836
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