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sentimental

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[ UK /sˌɛntɪmˈɛntə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˌsɛnəˈmɛnəɫ, ˌsɛnəˈmɛntəɫ, ˌsɛntəˈmɛnəɫ, ˌsɛntəˈmɛntəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. effusively or insincerely emotional
    sentimental soap operas
    slushy poetry
    maudlin expressions of sympathy
    a bathetic novel
    mushy effusiveness
    a schmaltzy song
  2. given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality

How To Use sentimental In A Sentence

  • Something you thought had only sentimental value could be worth a great deal. The Sun
  • Moreover, don't these choices facilitate a feminist reading of the text, deconstructing sentimentality to expose masculine failings and feminine rebellion?
  • The requests were the old ones: portraits of pretty mistresses done up as Arcadian shepherdesses, Virgins with downcast eyes and brilliant blue cloaks, sentimentalised pictures of the Infant Christ.
  • It was a sentimental and monumental event as the Brazilian government gave the Philippine president full planeside military honors complete with all the 21-gun salute. WN.com - Articles related to Chile Rejects Church Call to Pardon Officials
  • She gets signed up for Amateur Night as a sentimental soprano soloist, is propelled on stage, moves her lips as the crowd makes noise, sways her body as if actually singing, then exits. “. . .all his race rose up before him in a mighty phantasmagoria. . .”
  • Black color is sentimentally bad but, every black board makes the students life bright. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 
  • This vanishing reflects both the culture's increasing intolerance of sentimentalism and mainstream comics' marginalizing of women readers.
  • No sentimental swooning with love for Austen. Times, Sunday Times
  • Even the more sentimental variations seem mocking.
  • Bond's unflattering portrait lacks generosity, but at least it's an antidote to sentimental bardolatry. Times, Sunday Times
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