(SAR-doo-duhl-duhm)
noun
Plays having contrived melodramatic plot, concentrating excessively on the technique to the exclusion of characterization.
Etymology
After Victorien Sardou (1831-1908), French playwright; coined by playwright and critic George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950).
"Most of Lubitsch's other plot sources are hackneyed representatives of Sardoodledom." — Gerald Mast; The Comic Mind: Comedy and the Movies; University of Chicago Press; Aug 17, 2004.
"There is even the Secret of the well-made play, Sardoodledom's ultimate question: who is Godot? Will he come?" — David Bradby, Michael Robinson; Waiting for Godot: Plays in Production; Cambridge University Press; Nov 15, 2001.





