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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sentimental/sentɪˈmentl/
▶adjective deriving from feelings of tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia.
■ having or arousing such feelings in an exaggerated and self-indulgent way.
– derivatives
sentimentalism noun,
sentimentalist noun,
sentimentality noun (pl. sentimentalities),
sentimentalization (or sentimentalisation) noun,
sentimentalize (or sentimentalise) verb,
sentimentally adverb.
sentimentalism noun,
sentimentalist noun,
sentimentality noun (pl. sentimentalities),
sentimentalization (or sentimentalisation) noun,
sentimentalize (or sentimentalise) verb,
sentimentally adverb.
'sentimental' also found in these Oxford entries:
ballad
- bill
- corn
- cornball
- corny
- cutesy
- drippy
- gooey
- hoke
- hokey
- hokum
- icky
- kitsch
- locket
- maudlin
- mawkish
- memory
- nostalgia
- romance
- romantic
- saccharine
- sappy
- sentimental value
- sickly
- sick-making
- slop
- sloppy
- sloshy
- soft-centred
- soppy
- soupy
- sugar-coated
- sugary
- syrupy
- tear-jerker
- tender-hearted
- toe-curling
- twee
- unsentimental
- weepie
- weepy
- wish-wash
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emotional vs. sentimental
No sentimental pity. Is that an incomplete sentence?
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sweetly sentimental
to have an emotional meaning or a sentimental meaning?
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emotional vs. sentimental
No sentimental pity. Is that an incomplete sentence?
sensitive or sentimental ?
sentimental
sentimental on
sweetly sentimental
to have an emotional meaning or a sentimental meaning?
warm but/X slightly sentimental
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