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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They are probably right; for, I give you my word, he is a sentimental fool, our good Loris.
From The Red Symbol by Ironside, John
"She'll drive me to it, with her smug self-righteousness ... ignorant, sentimental fool!"
From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Rives, Amélie
Hollister had never been a sentimental fool, nor a sensualist whose unrestrained passions muddied the streams of his thought.
From The Hidden Places by Sinclair, Bertrand W.