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Sentimentalise

verb
1.
Make (someone or something) sentimental or imbue with sentimental qualities.  Synonym: sentimentalize.  "These experiences have sentimentalized her"
2.
Look at with sentimentality or turn into an object of sentiment.  Synonym: sentimentalize.
3.
Act in a sentimental way or indulge in sentimental thoughts or expression.  Synonyms: sentimentalize, sentimentise, sentimentize.





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"Sentimentalise" Quotes from Famous Books



... again in due season. But our generation has enjoyed a peculiarly poisonous variety of him. In his Renaissance guise, whether projected upon actual history, as in the person of Richard III, or strutting sublimated through Marlowe's blank verse, he spared at any rate to sentimentalise his brutality. Our forefathers summed him up in the byword that an Italianate Englishman was a devil incarnate; but he had the grace of being Italianate. It is from the Germanised avatar—the Bismarck of the 'Ems telegram,' with his sentimentalising historians ...
— From a Cornish Window - A New Edition • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch


Words linked to "Sentimentalise" :   sentimentize, sentimentalize, modify, behave, alter, change, misrepresent, sentimentise, act, belie, do, sentimentalisation


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