Example Sentences

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Art critics delighted in savaging her work, generally deeming it kitschy and oversentimental.

From Washington Post • Jun. 29, 2022

Airing on ABC from 1987 to 1995, the sitcom was considered hackneyed and oversentimental by many critics but resonated with tens of millions of viewers.

From Washington Post • Jan. 10, 2022

This is sometimes seriously impaired by patronizing and oversentimental sympathy for simple folk.

From Time Magazine Archive

We would, I think, be oversentimental in our treatment of this subject if we omitted two hugely important factors in work character.

From The Foundations of Personality by Myerson, Abraham

Neither is this a mere fancy or fad peculiar to sensitive men or oversentimental women.

From Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity by McCarty, Louis Philippe