oversentimentaladj.n.

1855 D. G. Mitchell Fudge Doings II. xxi. 37 I may remark here that this is a common indulgence, and a common infatuation of over-sentimental natures.

1890 Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. 5 p. xv When we are told that it is oversentimental, we should like to see the best and most characteristic passages of sentimentality that could be adduced.

1929 Times 3 July 17/6 These words were repeated to me by the party's professional hunter, and he might not be accused of being oversentimental on the subject.

1961 J. O'Hara Title Assembly 174 She had smiled in recognition of the handwriting; but the letter itself was the letter of a dullard, a clod, a semiliterate, presumptuous, oversentimental mediocrity.

2001 Independent 26 May ii. 3/3 I am not sure you have to be a Corkonian to get it, but ousiders often make the mistake of thinking it all too over-sentimental.

1887 Catholic World Aug. 706 There is a little touch of the over-sentimental in ‘Marah’.

1935 T. M. Finney Hist. Music xxx. 448 All these diverse tendencies were transformed..into a style which was essentially Chopin himself: a man who was endowed with a startling pianistic color sense; an introspecitve romantic—sometimes bordering on The oversentimental and feminine.

2002 Canberra Times (Nexis) 19 Aug. a8 This new one edges even further away from bluegrass to the newly fashionable all-acoustic Nashville sound, and some songs verge on the oversentimental.