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What is the adjective for maudlinism?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb maudle which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

maudlin
  1. Affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner, especially because of drunkenness. [from 17th c.]
  2. Extravagantly or excessively sentimental; mawkish, self-pitying. [from 17th c.]
  3. (obsolete) Tearful, lachrymose. [17th-19th c.]
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “I nodded, smiling now at the cheesiness of the moment, particularly as a maudlin pop song came on the jukebox.”
      “I even prefer a certain resident who begs for attention in gushing streams of maudlin self-pity.”
maudled
  1. simple past tense and past participle of maudle
maudling
  1. present participle of maudle
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