Definition of "sentimentalizing" []

• Present participle of sentimentalize. (verb)

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• "I've always had problems with academics who've sneered at Disney for "sentimentalizing" and "oversimplifying" literary works or the complex wonders of nature."
• "And he had a big "question mark" about that; he accused them of "sentimentalizing," i.e., reacting emotionally to events."
• "Rudyard Kipling's accounts of life and death in Pathan lands, though frowned upon by higher-ups for sentimentalizing imperialism, won avid readers with the other side in the old Great Game."