Falsely emotional in a maudlin way.
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Examples for "sentimentality "
Examples for "sentimentality "
1 My grandmother was not given to sentiment, and certainly not shtetl sentimentality .
2 One might question a coda that teeters on the edge of sentimentality .
3 The next moment, the grave, shy countryman had smiled at his sentimentality .
4 She seemed displeased at being surprised in the very act of sentimentality .
5 A beggar, by Jove, and all in consequence of my d-d sentimentality .
1 This sloppiness speaks to one of the true tragedies of the case.
2 And one thing Honor had learned long ago was that sloppiness spread.
3 Their complaints about the slowness and sloppiness of the service were loud.
4 In the real world, visual cues correct any sloppiness in sensing movements.
5 There were moments of sloppiness combined with the sublime in England's fielding.
1 What's most shocking about these 'buds is the absolute lack of mushiness or blurred sound.
2 The mushiness in the air prevented the drying.
3 Then he went home, snarling about my mushiness .
4 Red lentils, which require no soaking before cooking, will fall quickly into a bland mushiness soaking up the flavours that surround it.
5 Night 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.
1 Not that a little soupiness would be the end of the world.
1 Nor is there any mawkishness or cheap surface sentimentality in it all.
2 He was fundamentally normal-fundamentallywholesome-withno trace of mawkishness in his nature.
3 His songs were positive and profound and often romantic without mawkishness .
4 It tells a very sweet story without ever straying into mawkishness or sickliness.
5 And wedging it into a Christmas context of peace and harmony risks mawkishness .
6 I would be the last to want such mush and mawkishness .
7 The mawkishness of the sentiment was only surpassed by the feebleness of the style.
8 GLASVEGAS Flowers and Football Tops Columbia★★ More shameless mawkishness from the dour Scottish rockers.
9 Least mutable of all, the hero swaggered on, virtuous without mawkishness , pugnacious without brutality.
10 When animals must obey, they must-that'sall, and no mawkishness !
11 There is no suggestion of mawkishness in his discourse.
12 Richard knew no mawkishness on the score of eavesdropping.
13 The farewells had to be gone through, with dignity and if possible with elan, but without mawkishness .
14 In such a shape the patriotic instinct may tend in natures weaker than Bolingbroke's to mawkishness or sentimentality.
15 If you deny them to the latter, all you get is poverty of ideas, and morbidity, and mawkishness .
16 The ladies, watching him, seemed by their eyes to condone the mawkishness of the demonstration which had tempted him.
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