Falsely emotional in a maudlin way.
Sinônimos
Examples for "sentimentality"
Examples for "sentimentality"
1My grandmother was not given to sentiment, and certainly not shtetl sentimentality.
2One might question a coda that teeters on the edge of sentimentality.
3The next moment, the grave, shy countryman had smiled at his sentimentality.
4She seemed displeased at being surprised in the very act of sentimentality.
5A beggar, by Jove, and all in consequence of my d-d sentimentality.
1This sloppiness speaks to one of the true tragedies of the case.
2And one thing Honor had learned long ago was that sloppiness spread.
3Their complaints about the slowness and sloppiness of the service were loud.
4In the real world, visual cues correct any sloppiness in sensing movements.
5There were moments of sloppiness combined with the sublime in England's fielding.
1Nor is there any mawkishness or cheap surface sentimentality in it all.
2He was fundamentally normal-fundamentallywholesome-withno trace of mawkishness in his nature.
3His songs were positive and profound and often romantic without mawkishness.
4It tells a very sweet story without ever straying into mawkishness or sickliness.
5And wedging it into a Christmas context of peace and harmony risks mawkishness.
1What's most shocking about these 'buds is the absolute lack of mushiness or blurred sound.
2The mushiness in the air prevented the drying.
3Then he went home, snarling about my mushiness.
4Red lentils, which require no soaking before cooking, will fall quickly into a bland mushiness soaking up the flavours that surround it.
5Night and day, not daring to stop for fear of the imminent freeze-up, they dared to run, an increasing mushiness of ice running with them.
1Not that a little soupiness would be the end of the world.
Translations for drippiness