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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“As a traditionalist, sentimentally it’s difficult to see the timing and structure of the Triple Crown being adjusted,” Aron Wellman, president of Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, which co-owns Journalism, said in a phone interview.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
“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
They owed to him their two or three politest puzzles; and the joy and exultation with which at last he recalled, and rather sentimentally recited, that well-known charade,
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
