sentimentalist

[ sen-tuh-men-tl-ist ]

/ ˌsɛn təˈmɛn tl ɪst /

one given to sentiment or sentimentality.

Origin of sentimentalist

First recorded in 1770–80; sentimental + -ist

But he is no sentimentalist, and never shies from the harsh realities of that lonely spot.

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This is not because he is a sentimentalist, but for the very opposite reason.

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And being supersensitive on this point, she had hurled "sentimentalist" in his face.

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Rousseau was a republican in his politics, as he was a sentimentalist in religion.

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This was the very kind of person for Mr Simon Silky, who was a bit of a sentimentalist in his way.

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Intellectual criticism will bind Europe together in bonds far closer than those that can be forged by shopman or sentimentalist.

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