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Another word for sentimental

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sentimental

modif.

emotional, romantic, romantical, dreamy, idealistic, visionary, mawkish, maudlin, bathetic, artificial, sickish, unrealistic, susceptible, silly, overemotional, affected, simpering, languishing, artificial, insincere, overacted, schoolgirlish, sappy*, gushy*, mushy*, tear-jerking*, corny*.

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Another word for sentimental

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Affectedly or extravagantly emotional:

bathetic, gushy, maudlin, mawkish, romantic, slushy, sobby, soft, soppy. (Informal) gooey, mushy, schmaltzy, sloppy, soupy. (Slang) drippy, sappy, tear-jerking. See feelings

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Anyway, it has sentimental value.
In religion Rousseau was undoubtedly what he has been called above - a sentimental deist; but no one who reads him with the smallest attention can fail to see that sentimentalism was the essence, deism the accident of his creed.
I know it has sentimental value to you because your dad bought it new.
He had a sentimental streak in him a mile wide, but he'd never admit it.
It was silly and sentimental, but she wanted to paint the master bedroom first.

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