sentimental fool
Example Sentences
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And Bingley emerges as a sentimental fool, given to crying fits: The “gush from his eyes would surely have been sufficient to bathe a medium-sized dog: a corgi or, perhaps, a Border collie.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2016
Was he really that much of a sentimental fool?
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
He must see Carmen and resolved that she should find him proof against her wiles; he was not going to be a sentimental fool again.
From Carmen's Messenger by Harold Bindloss
He'd just let them—by which he vaguely meant the world, Tasajara, and possibly his own conscience—see that he wasn't a sentimental fool, and he'd freeze on to that paper and that property!
From A First Family of Tasajara by Bret Harte
Hollister had never been a sentimental fool, nor a sensualist whose unrestrained passions muddied the streams of his thought.
From The Hidden Places by Bertrand W. Sinclair
