Sentimentally
[sɛntə'mɛntəli]
Definition
(adv.) in a sentimental manner; '`I miss the good old days,' she added sentimentally'.
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Definition
(adv.) In a sentimental manner.
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Examples
- I wish we could have afforded some of the plate, Rawdon, the wife continued sentimentally. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The first impulse is to abolish all lobster palaces, melodramas, yellow newspapers, and sentimentally erotic novels. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Ah, there's no place like home, sighed the Honorable Mrs Dengelton sentimentally. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Elton may talk sentimentally, but he will act rationally. Jane Austen. Emma.
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