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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.

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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.

 

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