Meanings (ES + gloss)
llorica • llorón • sensiblero
Affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner, especially because of drunkenness.
Why, man, you couldn't stand—you made everybody laugh in the Gardens, though you were crying yourself. You were maudlin, Jos. Don't you remember singing a song?
With the help of a sleepy waiter, Little Billee got the bacchanalian into his room and lit his candle for him, and, disengaging himself from his maudlin embraces, left him to wallo…
lamentoso • lloraduelos • llorica • llorón
Extravagantly or excessively sentimental; mawkish, self-pitying.
On the rebound one passes into tears and pathos. Maudlin tears. I almost prefer the moments of agony. These are at least clean and honest. But the bath of self-pity, the wallow, th…
To cap it all I had written a letter to Mara saying that we had to find a way out soon or I would commit suicide. It must have been a maudlin letter because when she telephoned me…
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