Maudlin

a.	1.	Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly.
	2.	Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled; given to drunkenness. Maudlin Clarence in his malmsey butt. - Byron.
n.	1.	(Bot.) An aromatic composite herb, the costmary; also, the South European Achillea Ageratum, a kind of yarrow.

Adj.

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maudlin - effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressons of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" Synonyms: bathetic, hokey, mawkish, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, mushy, drippy

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