(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.
Soppy
Definition:
(a.) Soaked or saturated with liquid or moisture; very wet or sloppy.
Example Sentences:
(1) I am of a similar vintage and, like many friends and fans of the series, bemoan the fact that we are generally treated by society as silly, weak, daft, soppy, prejudiced (even bigoted), risk-averse and wary of new situations.
(2) Thirteen years later Raca has written an account of her own experiences, which cannot be described as remotely soppy.
(3) The author seems to revel in it, killing off popular, morally spotless characters knowing his readers (with their soppy, modern notions of fairness) won't see it coming.
(4) She took her job as an assistant school principal extremely seriously and had no time for what she saw as the soppy self-indulgence of her husband's approach to things.
(5) Or "Soppy chocolate labrador frolicking in babbling brook weekend".
(6) This isn’t down to some soppy benevolence on the part of TV producers.
(7) Fast-forward, and Charli XCX is sharing massive US No 1 hits with Iggy Azalea (the super-catchy Fancy) – and getting songs on The Fault in Our Stars soundtrack (the pugnaciously soppy Boom Clap).
(8) Supposed to be a full-on face and this one you walk away from.” Derogatory remarks are made about most of their co-defendants, whom they refer to as either a “soppy cunt” or a “fucking idiot”.
(9) (“This is so bogus!” he exclaimed, when they asked him to stand in front of an old haunt and look soppy.)
(10) Boring, pretentious and a bit soppy - like a printed, rhyming version of Bono.
(11) All of this wasteful soppy girly stuff interferes with the male scientist’s duty to pursue truth with a single-minded purpose.
(12) "He didn't want soppy ," he says of Leonard Bernstein, with whom he argued over the lyrics of West Side Story .
(13) Not so long ago when other people wrote words like that I would roll my eyes at their soppy bullshit.
(14) An eight-part tribute to the 1939-1945 pluck of our agricultural predecessors, it appears to have borrowed its MO from Abigail; draping its lovely soppy labradoriness over our slippers and nuzzling into our lap with its damp-nosed facts and historical bonhomie, even though it's actually a cow and, as such, has ruined the carpet.
(15) But even my soppy eyes are clear enough to see that 90s style was a decade-long mistake that desperately does not need reviving.
(16) They're also – rather amazingly, given that they've just celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary – still as soppy about each other as two lovebirds.
(17) They're what our government seems to regard as soppy humanities, barely worthy of inclusion in the school curriculum.
(18) Stannard wrote of the friendship as Spark "learning to love again", but Jardine thinks this is a bit soppy.