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Sentimentalize

verb

Look at with sentimentality or turn into an object of sentiment. Synonym: sentimentalise.

Make (someone or something) sentimental or imbue with sentimental qualities. Synonym: sentimentalise. "These experiences have sentimentalized her"

Act in a sentimental way or indulge in sentimental thoughts or expression. Synonyms: sentimentalise, sentimentise, sentimentize.

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"Sentimentalize" Quotes from Famous Books

... is thus evident that ideals are not things to gush over or to sigh and sentimentalize about; they are not what would be left if that which is hard in reality were taken away; ideals are themselves the very flint of reality, beautiful no doubt and precious, without which there would be neither dignity nor hope nor light; but their aspect is not sentimental and soft; it is hard, ...

— Manhood of Humanity. • Alfred Korzybski

... start I came to my senses and bestowed a pinch on myself. This was neither the time nor the place to sentimentalize over a girlish beauty whose small, Parisian head was crammed full of foolish, brave theories concerning an imposition which her aged sovereign had ...

— In Search of the Unknown • Robert W. Chambers

Words linked to "Sentimentalize" : act, modify, misrepresent, belie, do, alter, change, behave, sentimentalization