Sentimental

a.	1.	Having, expressing, or containing a sentiment or sentiments; abounding with moral reflections; containing a moral reflection; didactic. Nay, ev'n each moral sentimental stroke, Where not the character, but poet, spoke, He lopped, as foreign to his chaste design, Nor spared a useless, though a golden line. - Whitehead.
	2.	Inclined to sentiment; having an excess of sentiment or sensibility; indulging the sensibilities for their own sake; artificially or affectedly tender; - often in a reproachful sense. A sentimental mind is rather prone to overwrought feeling and exaggerated tenderness. - Whately.
	3.	Addressed or pleasing to the emotions only, usually to the weaker and the unregulated emotions.

Adj.	1.	sentimental - given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality
	2.	sentimental - effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressons of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" Synonyms: hokey, maudlin, mawkish, bathetic, schmaltzy, schmalzy, slushy, mushy, drippy

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