maudlin

• Qualifie une personne excessivement sentimentale, émotive ou qui s'apitoye sur elle-même, souvent avec des larmes ou une sensibilité mièvre.

Describes someone who is overly sentimental, emotional, or self-pitying, often in a tearful or mawkish way.

1. Overly sentimentalC1formal

   Excessively or tearfully sentimental, often due to alcohol or emotion.

   Sentimental à l'excès, larmoyant

   • He became maudlin after a few drinks, crying about old memories.
   • The movie's ending was so maudlin that it felt forced.
   • She wrote a maudlin letter to her ex-boyfriend.

   Synonymescloyingeffusiveemotionalgushinglachrymosemawkishoveremotionalsappyschmaltzysentimentalsloppyslushysoppytearfulweepy

   Antonymesmatter-of-factsoberstoicunemotionalunsentimental