Word Meanings - MAUDLIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Maudeleyne, who is drawn by painters with eyes swelled and red with 1. Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly. "Maudlin eyes." Dryden. "Maudlin eloquence." Roscommon. "A maudlin poetess." Pope.
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Maudeleyne, who is drawn by painters with eyes swelled and red with 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. 2. Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled; given to drunkenness. Maudlin Clarence in his malmsey butt. Byron.
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- MAWKISHLY
In a mawkish way. - SENTIMENTALLY
In a sentimental manner. - MAWKISHNESS
The quality or state of being mawkish. J. H. Newman. - NAUSEOUS
Causing, or fitted to cause, nausea; sickening; loathsome; disgusting; exciting abhorrence; as, a nauseous drug or medicine. -- Nau"seous*ly, adv. -- Nau"seous*ness, n. The nauseousness of such company disgusts a reasonable man. Dryden. - MAUDLINWORT
The oxeye daisy. - SENTIMENTALIST
One who has, or affects, sentiment or fine feeling. - MAWKISH
1. Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; disgusting. So sweetly mawkish', and so smoothly dull. Pope. 2. Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious. J. H. Newman. - INSIPIDLY
In an insipid manner; without taste, life, or spirit; flatly. Locke. Sharp. - INSIPIDITY; INSIPIDNESS
The quality or state of being insipid; vapidity. "Dryden's lines shine strongly through the insipidity of Tate's." Pope. - SENTIMENTALIZE
To regard in a sentimental manner; as, to sentimentalize a subject. - INSIPID
1. Wanting in the qualities which affect the organs of taste; without taste or savor; vapid; tasteless; as, insipid drink or food. Boyle. 2. Wanting in spirit, life, or animation; uninteresting; weak; vapid; flat; dull; heavy; as, an insipid woman; - SENTIMENTALITY
The quality or state of being sentimental. - SENTIMENTALISM
The quality of being sentimental; the character or behavior of a sentimentalist; sentimentality. - SICKLY
1. Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a sickly body. This physic but prolongs thy sickly days. Shak. 2. Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a sickly climate. Cowper. 3. Appearing as if sick; weak; - MAUDLIN; MAUDELINE
An aromatic composite herb, the costmary; also, the South European Achillea Ageratum, a kind of yarrow. - SENTIMENTAL
1. Having, expressing, or containing a sentiment or sentiments; abounding with moral reflections; containing a moral reflection; didactic. Nay, ev'n each moral sentimental stroke, Where not the character, but poet, spoke, He lopped, as foreign - LOATHSOME
Fitted to cause loathing; exciting disgust; disgusting. The most loathsome and deadly forms of infection. Macaulay. -- Loath"some*ly. adv. -- Loath"some*ness, n. - MAUDLIN
Maudeleyne, who is drawn by painters with eyes swelled and red with 1. Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly. "Maudlin eyes." Dryden. "Maudlin eloquence." Roscommon. "A maudlin poetess." Pope. - MAUDLINISM
A maudlin state. Dickens. - BRAINSICKLY
In a brainsick manner. - PRESENTIMENTAL
Of nature of a presentiment; foreboding. Coleridge.