sickly+sentimental

  • 71tender — I adj 1. unfibrous, butterlike, crushable, soft, silken. 2. weak, delicate, feeble, frail, frail as a reed, unsturdy, slight, infirm; shaky, tottery, precarious, uncertain, unstable; poor, sickly, unwell, unhealthy, unsound, weakly; wretched,… …

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  • 72romantic — 1. adjective 1) he s so romantic Syn: loving, amorous, passionate, tender, affectionate; informal lovey dovey 2) romantic songs Syn: sentimental, hearts and flowers, mawkish, sickly, saccharine …

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  • 73icky — /ˈɪki / (say ikee) adjective Colloquial 1. sticky; gooey. 2. difficult to deal with; disagreeable; troublesome. 3. sentimental; sickly. {originally jazz slang for a person who liked sweet (not swinging) jazz} …

  • 74glutinous — ► ADJECTIVE 1) like glue in texture; sticky. 2) excessively sentimental; sickly: glutinous ballads. DERIVATIVES glutinously adverb. ORIGIN Latin glutinosus, from gluten glue …

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  • 75glutinously — glutinous ► ADJECTIVE 1) like glue in texture; sticky. 2) excessively sentimental; sickly: glutinous ballads. DERIVATIVES glutinously adverb. ORIGIN Latin glutinosus, from gluten glue …

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  • 76SHALOM ALEICHEM — (Sholem Aleykhem; narrative persona and subsequent pseudonym of Sholem Rabinovitsh (Rabinovitz); 1859–1916), Yiddish prose writer and humorist born on February 18, 1859 (old style; March 2, new style), in Pereyaslav (today: Pereyaslav… …

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