maudlin

Example Sentences

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Ms. Schilinski roams in and out of all the impressions and recollections, most of them stained by sadness and regret, without turning maudlin or melodramatic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

Played as a maudlin admission that she’s a fallen woman, this scene would doom the play to a dusty footnote in O’Neill’s oeuvre.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025

He’s also invested his protagonist with a self-deprecating sense of humor that keeps his pessimism from veering into maudlin territory.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2025

Thankfully, “We Live in Time” never becomes maudlin, but it also never generates much emotion other than disappointment and frustration.

From Salon • Oct. 11, 2024

“Just the fact that you considered it means—” “We’re getting maudlin here,” Sim broke in, knocking his glass against the table.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss