sentimental fool
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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
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"She'll drive me to it, with her smug self-righteousness ... ignorant, sentimental fool!"
From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Rives, Amélie
He persists that he is I, and that I am only a sentimental fool, spoiling his chances.
From Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
Perhaps after all, he was an old, sentimental fool.
From The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary by Walpole, Hugh, Sir