In a sentimental manner.

Characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion. / Derived from emotion rather than reason; of or caused by sentiment. / Romantic.

A general thought, feeling, or sense. / (uncountable) Feelings, especially tender feelings, as apart from reason or judgment, or of a weak or foolish kind.

plural of sentiment

plural of sentimentality

An act or state of being sentimental.

(transitive) To give a sentimental feel to. / (intransitive) To think or act in a sentimental manner, or like a sentimentalist; to affect exquisite sensibility.

The act of making sentimental.

A liking for sentimental things / An overly sentimental thing or condition; bathos or sentimentality / (philosophy) A view according to which morality is somehow grounded in moral sentiments or emotions.

simple past tense and past participle of sentimentalize