Monday, March 19, 2007

Maudlin

Maudlin is mostly used negatively to indicate something that is overly emotion-laden or foolishly sentimental. Slushy or gushy are more colloquial terms for such bathos. It derrives from Mary Magdalene who was portrayed iconographically in paintings as weeping.
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