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Adjective: maudlin  mod-lin
  1. Effusively or insincerely emotional
    "maudlin expressions of sympathy"
    - bathetic, drippy, hokey [N. Amer], mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy, gooey, cutesy, sappy [N. Amer]

See also: emotional

Encyclopedia: Maudlin