over-sentimental
Example Sentences
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"They get over-sentimental, well for footballers anyway, and talk really beautifully about it and kind of feel like they are coming home to Craven Cottage, just like a fan does."
From BBC • Dec. 20, 2023
Is the combustible Slaven Bilic simply an over-sentimental nod to the past or has he actually got the qualities to be a success in the Premier League?
From BBC • Aug. 5, 2015
He is a little over-sentimental, a little over-pessimistic about Europe.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Walpole treats his old ladies with sympathetic affection and contrives not to be over-sentimental about them.
From Time Magazine Archive
This poem is a rather successful bit of ridicule cast on the over-sentimental who sought to follow Yorick’s foot-prints.
From Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century by Hewett-Thayer, Harvey W. (Harvey Waterman)
