sentimental fool

Example Sentences

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And Bingley emerges as a sentimental fool, given to crying fits: The “gush from his eyes would surely have been sufficient to bathe a medium-sized dog: a corgi or, perhaps, a Border collie.”

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2016

Was he really that much of a sentimental fool?

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

Phyllis inheriting the intellectual equipment of her sentimental fool of a mother, had none, Oh! she had a vast fund of ordinary commonsense.

From The Red Planet by Locke, William John

They are probably right; for, I give you my word, he is a sentimental fool, our good Loris.

From The Red Symbol by Ironside, John

Hollister had never been a sentimental fool, nor a sensualist whose unrestrained passions muddied the streams of his thought.

From The Hidden Places by Sinclair, Bertrand W.