MAUDLIN in a Sentence

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The quiet tone of pathos that ran through the novel never degenerated into the maudlin or the overly sentimental.

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 Meanings and Examples of MAUDLIN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
maudlin
 a.  tearfully sentimental; over-emotional; sickly-sentimental
Classic Sentence:
1  That I retired to bed in a most maudlin state of mind, and got up in a crisis of feeble infatuation.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY
Example Sentence:
1  The quiet tone of pathos that ran through the novel never degenerated into the maudlin or the overly sentimental.
2  One moment he was in maudlin tears and the next he was cracking some miserable joke about the disaster.