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UK
/sˌɛntɪmˈɛntəl/
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[ US /ˌsɛnəˈmɛnəɫ, ˌsɛnəˈmɛntəɫ, ˌsɛntəˈmɛnəɫ, ˌsɛntəˈmɛntəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˌsɛnəˈmɛnəɫ, ˌsɛnəˈmɛntəɫ, ˌsɛntəˈmɛnəɫ, ˌsɛntəˈmɛntəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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effusively or insincerely emotional
sentimental soap operas
slushy poetry
maudlin expressions of sympathy
a bathetic novel
mushy effusiveness
a schmaltzy song - 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