Sentimentality

  • 81feeling — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Emotional sensation See also touch, taste Nouns 1. feeling, sensation, sentience, emotion, sensibility, sensitivity; endurance, tolerance, sufferance, experience, response; vibrations; impression,… …

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  • 82nostalgia — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. homesickness; pathos, regret, wistfulness; nostomania. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. remorse, wistfulness, sentimentality; see homesickness , loneliness . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) a …

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  • 83emotionalism — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. emotion, hysteria, sentimentality, agitation; see emotion , excitement , sensationalism , sentimentality …

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  • 84schmaltz — n sickly sentimentality. The word is Yid dish, from the German for cooking fat or dripping. The word was used in the New York Jewish community to describe what Leo Rosten in The Joys of Yiddish (1970) defines as corn, pathos, maud lin and mawkish …

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  • 85sentimental — [[t]se̱ntɪme̱nt(ə)l[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED Someone or something that is sentimental feels or shows pity or love, sometimes to an extent that is considered exaggerated and foolish. I m trying not to be sentimental about the past... It s a very… …

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  • 86slobber — slob·ber || slÉ‘bÉ™(r) / slÉ’b n. saliva, drool; extreme sentimentality or emotionalism, drivel v. salivate, drool; smear with saliva, wet with drool; indulge in sentimentality or emotionalism …

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  • 87slobbered — slob·ber || slÉ‘bÉ™(r) / slÉ’b n. saliva, drool; extreme sentimentality or emotionalism, drivel v. salivate, drool; smear with saliva, wet with drool; indulge in sentimentality or emotionalism …

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  • 88slobbering — slob·ber || slÉ‘bÉ™(r) / slÉ’b n. saliva, drool; extreme sentimentality or emotionalism, drivel v. salivate, drool; smear with saliva, wet with drool; indulge in sentimentality or emotionalism …

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  • 89slobbers — slob·ber || slÉ‘bÉ™(r) / slÉ’b n. saliva, drool; extreme sentimentality or emotionalism, drivel v. salivate, drool; smear with saliva, wet with drool; indulge in sentimentality or emotionalism …

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  • 90Doctor Sax: Faust Part Three — by Jack Kerouac (1959)    Jack Kerouac wrote Doctor Sax: Faust Part Three (published by Grove Press in 1959) primarily in May and June 1952 while living in Mexico City with William S. Burroughs. He had, though, been thinking about the material… …

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