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
If that line of reasoning is too mawkish and bleeding-heart for your taste, Worsley makes a more pragmatic argument for a generous, welcoming immigration policy, one unsentimentally rooted in cold dollars and cents.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2025
She desperately, unsentimentally prods him to get healthier, to care about himself.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 23, 2022
Another Democratic chief of staff involved in the vote-counting unsentimentally walked me through the numbers as they stood late Wednesday.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 21, 2018
And there he lay quaking for a long time, while the lunacy of his adventure coarsely and unsentimentally revealed itself.
From The Rough Road by William John Locke
