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• s  given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality
• s  effusively or insincerely emotional
  sentimental soap operas

• An occasion of honest sorrow in the hands of overambitious journalists is often capitalized for sentimental purposes to the point of hypocrisy and travesty.
• The result was sentimental and, to some modern eyes, patronizing.
• It was the kind of trip the Prime Minister likes bestsights to see, a respectable minimum of speeches and official duties, a sentimental mission or two.

• bathetic
• drippy
• hokey
• maudlin
• mawkish
• kitschy
• mushy
• schmaltzy
• schmalzy
• soppy
• soupy
• slushy

News & Articles

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• Retired Congressman Ken Gray takes sentimental flight over So. Illinois
  Retired Congressman Ken Gray took to the sky for a sentimental journey May 30.
  June 17, 2013 - Evansville Courier & Press
• Phil Mickelson’s bridesmaid heartbreak continues as Justin Rose wins U.S. Open
  Golf is not fair. Golf is simply not fair. Phil Mickelson, sentimental favorite and leader/co-leader every night of the U.S. Open, the guy who's somehow golf's everyman despite being a private-jet-flying multimillionaire, has once again fallen just short at the … Continue reading ?
  June 16, 2013 - Devil Ball Golf via Yahoo! Sports
• Finger Lakes: Sentimental Lass hits crossroads in Tuesday allowance
  It’s time for Sentimental Lass to show whether she still wants to race or would be better off beginning a new career as a broodmare.
  June 15, 2013 - Daily Racing Form

Quotes

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• John McCain in Boston Globe
  I still kinda like the Red Sox,McCain said in an interview this morning on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" when asked about the Major League Baseball playoffs. "I have a sentimental favorite, look, I think they're going to do well now that my...
• Jerry Springer in Forbes
  She may be a sentimental favorite,said Springer, even though Mills has Yoko Ono-like favorability ratings among many Beatles fans.
• Paris Hilton in Extra TV
  I am devastated. I cannot believe someone broke into my home. They took items that had such sentimental value that no one will ever be able to replace,Hilton told Life & Style Weekly. "I'm just thankful that I wasn't there when it...