sentimentalize
sen|ti|men|tal|ize /s'entɪm'entəlaɪz/ (sentimentalizes sentimentalizing sentimentalized)
in BRIT, also use sentimentalise
[VERB] V n, V, V-ed
If you sentimentalize something, you make it seem sentimental or think about it in a sentimental way.
He seems either to fear women or to sentimentalize them...
He's the kind of filmmaker who doesn't hesitate to over-sentimentalize.
...Rupert Brooke's sentimentalised glorification of war.
in BRIT, also use sentimentalise
[VERB] V n, V, V-ed
If you sentimentalize something, you make it seem sentimental or think about it in a sentimental way.
He seems either to fear women or to sentimentalize them...
He's the kind of filmmaker who doesn't hesitate to over-sentimentalize.
...Rupert Brooke's sentimentalised glorification of war.