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
You will perhaps think me a sentimental fool for wishing to keep Panton's good opinion, but such is my wish.
From From out the Vasty Deep by Marie Belloc Lowndes
Phyllis inheriting the intellectual equipment of her sentimental fool of a mother, had none, Oh! she had a vast fund of ordinary commonsense.
From The Red Planet by William John Locke
Perhaps after all, he was an old, sentimental fool.
From The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary by Sir Hugh Walpole
