What's the difference between lachrymose and maudlin?

Lachrymose


Definition:

  • (a.) Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She is deeply feeling for her country, her people and for those around her, and yet she has never been lachrymose.
  • (2) The prime minister's lachrymose performance had nothing to do with his agitated emotional state, Dmitry Peskov said, but was the result of an icy breeze whipping over the Kremlin's historic cobbles.
  • (3) Yanis Varoufakis: maverick economist with Greece’s fate in his hands Read more If Hardouvelis, had had his way the handover would have been uneventful, if a little lachrymose.
  • (4) But it had been a different week – no rallies, more fear than rage; stunned, lachrymose, frightened and frightening at every level and turn.
  • (5) But at the same time, lachrymose athletes are funny.
  • (6) But lachrymose apologies are neither the French nor Hollande's way.
  • (7) Eulogies have a tendency to be lachrymose and overblown but I don’t think it’s overstating the case to say that a part of British pop music has died with it.
  • (8) Arnett’s Gob Bluth – an insanely unintegrated magician , clueless cocksman and a champion of lachrymose self-loathing in times of crisis – stood out as a brilliant comic creation even among the monsters and gargoyles in the rest of the cast.
  • (9) The young women, in the book, alas, are both inspid and lachrymose.
  • (10) Lone Survivor is decidedly not The Green Berets, John Wayne's second feature as a director from 1968, deluded and lachrymose propaganda for a war that a majority of Americans by then already wanted to be over.
  • (11) It takes a lot to make this cynic weep, but I'm seriously waxing lachrymose now.
  • (12) The floodgates had burst even before half time, presaging the tidal wave of lachrymosity that was to engulf the country.

Maudlin


Definition:

  • (a.) Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly.
  • (a.) Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled; given to drunkenness.
  • (n.) Alt. of Maudeline

Example Sentences:

  • (1) No, he says, he didn't get intimations of mortality, he didn't get maudlin, he didn't think about how he'd never work again.
  • (2) A key scene sees a puppet Kim Jong-il sing a maudlin number by that name.
  • (3) The first day (there is more in front of the Senate Thursday) was like an endless wake, which led to rambling meditation, many maudlin congratulations, thanks and eulogies from representatives who will, at most, regret losing the chance to whack their favorite economic piñata.
  • (4) Why am I suddenly maudlin about old photographs of tiny children in school uniform and haunted by memories of nursery teas and long afternoons in the park watching small boys chase a ball?
  • (5) The endless mawkish comparisons, wailing headlines and maudlin snippets.
  • (6) But his ability to abruptly switch tack and tone, into poetry or maudlin song, makes him a fascinating performer.
  • (7) But you listen to the music and it has this maudlin depression and beauty at the same time."
  • (8) Gilbert is against a kind of maudlin attachment to grief, which doesn't progress.
  • (9) I trust the confessional quality will be instructive and not taken as maudlin or pseudo-Proustian.
  • (10) But being focused on making plans, such as arranging my own funeral, has stopped me from becoming maudlin.
  • (11) After the shooting, the boys’ respective journals were found and while Dylan’s was full of maudlin and often nonsensical dreams about killing himself, Harris’s was full of violent and sadistic fantasies about hurting others.
  • (12) She is far from maudlin, having expressed a wish to be cremated in a vodka-bottle shaped coffin before having her ashes scattered on the island of Lindisfarne, off the north-east coast.