sentimentalize
verb (used without object)
to indulge in sentiment.
sentimentalizer
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a word derived from
sentimentalize.
Example Sentences
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It was the good-humour of the satirist, not of the sentimentalizer.
From Old and New Masters by Robert Lynd
The sturdy temper of his intellect fits him for a subject which is beset with pitfalls for the sentimentalizer.
From The Function of the Poet and Other Essays by James Russell Lowell
His name told you who he was—an aristocrat, a poet, a sentimentalizer, a dealer in fiction!
From Quodlibet by John Pendleton Kennedy
Willis was a kindly saunterer, the first Boston dandy, who began his literary career with grotesque propriety as a sentimentalizer of Bible stories, a performance which Lowell gayly called inspiration and water.
From Literary and Social Essays by George William Curtis
