sentimentalize

sentimentalize or sentimentalise (ˌsɛntɪˈmɛnt^əˌlaɪz)

—vb
	to make sentimental or behave sentimentally

sentimentalise or sentimentalise

—vb

sentimentali'zation or sentimentalise

—n

sentimentali'sation or sentimentalise

—n

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Example sentences

Anyone who would sentimentalize adolescence either is a fraud or has a bad memory.

First, there's a tendency to sentimentalize the public spaces of traditional cities.

But as a newsboy you, in a special moment, many people sentimentalize the newsboy.

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"Police officer: Say chief. This fellow Comante.... Public's interested in him. He's a colorful character.
Chief Detective: Colorful. What color is a trawling louse? Say listen, that's the attitude of too many morons in this country. They think these big hoodlums are some sort of demagogues. Whad a they do about a guy like Comante, they sentimentalize him. Romance. Make jokes about 'em. They had some excuse for glorifying our old Western badmen. They met in the middle of the street at high noon waiting for each other to draw. But these fiends sneak up, shoot a guy in the back, and then run away. Colorful ... When I think what goes on in the minds of these lice, I wanna vomit."

-Ben Hecht

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