maudlin \MOD-lin\, adjective:
Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental.
"The maudlin state or stage of drunkenness."
--Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
"The temptation to fill the airwaves with maudlin features accompanied
by the requisite sappy music must have been difficult to avoid."
--"Networks show restraint amid the excess," Toronto Star, April 19,
1999
"He was a bad drunk and became maudlin and weepy and would often have
to be carried home by his friends."
--Barry Miles, Jack Kerouac King of the Beats: A Portrait
"The lonesome tones of Willie Nelson rise on the Texas air and roll off into
the darkness, making the odd deer feel unaccountably maudlin and causing
lone jackrabbits to be overcome by a sudden desire to sink a whiskey and cry
into the empty glass."
--John Connolly, "Irishman's Diary," Irish Times, September 6, 1997
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Maudlin is an alteration of (Mary) Magdalene, who was in paintings often represented with eyes red and swollen from weeping.