SINCE 1828
anti-sentimental
adjective
an·ti-sen·ti·men·tal
| \ ˌan-tē-ˌsen-tə-ˈmen-tᵊl
, ˌan-tī-\
, ˌan-tī-\
variants:
or less commonly antisentimental
Definition of anti-sentimental
: opposed to sentimentalism : deliberately or emphatically not sentimental
Femmes Fatales was much more than anti-sentimental, it was meant to be hatefully reactionary, to make us look at the vitality of our prejudices.— Stanley Kauffmann
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