Adjective : a maudlin story of a little orphan and her lost dog. From Dictionary.com.
I was an angry young Californian back then & wanted to be aligned with those not easily cowed by media maudlinism. From Wordnik.com. [Why the NRA Should Try Being Reasonable] Reference
For once, all the major acceptance speeches were more than adequate to the occasion, escaping the extremes of maudlinism and mock modesty. From Wordnik.com. [Welcome Back, Palmer: Travolta Returns in Be Cool] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Pickwick Papers] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Edge of the Jungle] Reference
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