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SENTIMENTALLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sentimentally mean?
• SENTIMENTALLY (adverb)
The adverb SENTIMENTALLY has 1 sense:
1. in a sentimental manner
Familiarity information: SENTIMENTALLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a sentimental manner
Context example:
'I miss the good old days,' she added sentimentally
Antonym:
unsentimentally (in an unsentimental manner)
Pertainym:
sentimental (effusively or insincerely emotional)
Context examples
"See, Papa, aren't they pretty?" added Flo sentimentally.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Elton may talk sentimentally, but he will act rationally.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Sentimentally, she disliked it.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
They owed to him their two or three politest puzzles; and the joy and exultation with which at last he recalled, and rather sentimentally recited, that well-known charade, made her quite sorry to acknowledge that they had transcribed it some pages ago already.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
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