Sentimentally

[sɛntə'mɛntəli]

(adv.) in a sentimental manner; '`I miss the good old days,' she added sentimentally'.

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(adv.) In a sentimental manner.

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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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