sentimental
adjective
expressive of or appealing to sentiment, especially the tender emotions and feelings, as love, pity, or nostalgia.
unsentimentally
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a word derived from
sentimental.
Example Sentences
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Ms. Pitts’s revelation of Robin’s disappointments in her life—she works at a coffee shop, and made a mistake that poisoned her relationship with Melissa—is touchingly but unsentimentally rendered.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
She desperately, unsentimentally prods him to get healthier, to care about himself.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 23, 2022
This young woman whom Astrov admires but cannot passionately love is unsentimentally endowed with a strength and intelligence grounded in Chekhov’s forgiving wisdom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2022
Because moneyed society still works the way Undine Spragg understands it to: if your sole determination is to climb unsentimentally through its ranks, then you must approach your ascent strategically.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2021
"I wonder if the snow in the road is very deep?" soliloquized Jessica unsentimentally.
From Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College by Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
