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
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
But she was Mrs. Singleton Corey, and she would not act the sentimental fool if she could help it!
From The Lookout Man by B. M. Bower
