sentimental
adjective
expressive of or appealing to sentiment, especially the tender emotions and feelings, as love, pity, or nostalgia.
sentimentally
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a word derived from
sentimental.
Example Sentences
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“I personally like to think about the consumer as being sentimentally weak but fundamentally sound.”
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025
I often said I would have to quit if I lost that book — until its value eventually became irrelevant, except sentimentally.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2023
In later years, Jewish studies professors have been less kind, complaining that Harnick's lyrics and Joseph Stein's book sentimentally sanitized the shtetl and misrepresented both Judaism and eastern European life.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2023
What Murray wrote was sentimentally hopeful, but also literally true.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2023
“See, Papa, aren’t they pretty?” added Flo sentimentally.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
