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oversentimental

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  • adjective Excessively sentimental.

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over- +‎ sentimental

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Examples

  • I am one who grew up with a great affection for screen comedy, the wit of Preston Sturges, the oversentimental but still compelling work of Frank Capra, the brilliantly subversive satire of Stanley ...

    Gwen Davis: The End of Comedy (The Ass-End, Really) 2009

  • I am one who grew up with a great affection for screen comedy, the wit of Preston Sturges, the oversentimental but still compelling work of Frank Capra, the brilliantly subversive satire of Stanley Kubrick, with whom I had the mitigated joy of actually working.

    Gwen Davis: The End of Comedy (The Ass-End, Really) 2009

  • I am one who grew up with a great affection for screen comedy, the wit of Preston Sturges, the oversentimental but still compelling work of Frank Capra, the brilliantly subversive satire of Stanley ...

    Gwen Davis: The End of Comedy (The Ass-End, Really) 2009

  • We refused those ubiquitous American flag stamps even though they came in handy rolls (taking the oversentimental Love stamps instead).

    Stephen Elliott: My First Flag 2009

  • Hamas is a dreadful outfit that's brought suffering and false hope onto its own people: using them as a sort of economic and social self-destructing suicide bomb, better to wring pity and cash from a readily fooled and oversentimental Europe and America; or from regionally ambitious, anti-Israel Iran.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • I found the thing somewhat oversentimental, but worth the short time it take to read.

    October 1st, 2006 r_urell 2006

  • We would, I think, be oversentimental in our treatment of this subject if we omitted two hugely important factors in work character.

    The Foundations of Personality 1921

  • Arthur Ranger, now head of the family, owed it to the family's future and to its two helpless and oversentimental women to right the wrong.

    The Second Generation David Graham Phillips 1889

  • Old-fashioned these romances are in many ways, oversentimental, in parts poorly constructed, but in all English fiction there is nothing to surpass the opening chapters of _Jane Eyre_ for vividness and pathos, and few things to equal the greater part of _Villette_, the tragedy of an

    Modern English Books of Power George Hamlin Fitch 1888

  • Dennis Lenarduzzi isn't being oversentimental when he calls ManRayGun a band of brothers.

    Edmonton Sun 2010

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