Possible Clues:

• It's refined to take time to widdle
• Sickly material brought to a premature end
• Overly sentimental or pretty
• High-pitched sound
• Sentimental, quaint
• Root removed from flower, too dainty
• Affectedly quaint, in Colchester
• Cute river, bottom dredged?
• Affected material finally cut
• Section of account we excise as over-sentimental