sentimentalise
- a variation of sentimentalize.
Example Sentences
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We must never sentimentalise anyone who seeks such power over us as well-intentioned.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2020
"The movie had the very best talents in Hollywood at that time working together to sentimentalise a history that never was," continued the Oscar-winning screenwriter of 12 Years A Slave.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2020
Only those with the luxury of not having to worry about the practicalities of parenthood can sentimentalise the situation.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 2, 2018
This is a frighteningly funny, oddly touching movie that never flinches from or attempts to sentimentalise the grotesquely embarrassing Dicky or to turn Micky into a liberated spirit.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 6, 2011
Of course this meant among other things that they hammered it all in literally: but let us not sentimentalise over that.
From On The Art of Reading by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
