oversentimental

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oversentimental

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From over- + sentimental.

adjective more oversentimental · most oversentimental

Excessively sentimental. He looked off into the middle distance in a way that was so ridiculously oversentimental that everyone laughed again.
Similar: bathetic, maudlin, overemotional, cheesy, squishy, corny, drippy, gooey, hokey, icky, kitsch, kitschy

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@misc{oversentimental_2026,
  title = {oversentimental},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/oversentimental},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}