Learn MAUDLIN from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
1. That I retired to bed in a most maudlin state of mind, and got up in a crisis of feeble infatuation.
2. One moment he was in maudlin tears and the next he was cracking some miserable joke about the disaster.
3. The quiet tone of pathos that ran through the novel never degenerated into the maudlin or the overly sentimental.
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