comfort-loving love

Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word comfort-loving.

Examples

  • Quiet, comfort-loving Mr. Green, accompanied by his friends Colonel Mustard and Professor Plum, must make their way across the land to Mrs. White's Hall, where they must throw it into the magic fountain where it was created.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Ulysses 2008

  • Quiet, comfort-loving Mr. Green, accompanied by his friends Colonel Mustard and Professor Plum, must make their way across the land to Mrs. White's Hall, where they must throw it into the magic fountain where it was created.

    What's in a Genre? Ulysses 2008

  • Caroline Spalding had been wrong, and weak — had shewn herself to be comfort-loving and luxuriously-minded, had looked to get her happiness from soft effeminate pleasures rather than from rational work and the useful, independent exercise of her own intelligence.

    He Knew He Was Right 2004

  • She turned to contemplate him, a premonitory wave of terror sweeping over her, but she only saw that imposing and comfort-loving soul quietly reading his letters, his smoothly shaved red cheek and comfortable head and body looking anything but militant or like an avenging Nemesis.

    Jennie Gerhardt 2004

  • Zane took comfort in the idea that because of the arch's remote location the "tourist, the leisurely traveler, the comfort-loving motorist would never behold it: only by toil, sweat, endurance, and pain could any man ever look at Nonnezoshe."

    Zane Grey, Romancing the West May, Stephen J. 1997

  • "I'm a comfort-loving man myself, and as I became more wealthy and consequently gained more power in the village council, I saw to it that my own ideas for civic improvement were carried out."

    Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories Greenberg, Martin H. 1990

  • And he had always been the comfort-loving sort, anyways.

    Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories Greenberg, Martin H. 1990

  • ” Let us rejoice, indeed, at having witnessed the death of a lying and comfort-loving Europe and at being faced with cruel truths.

    Albert Camus (1913-60) 1989

  • Their comfort-loving queen had not granted them many such glimpses of her since her banishment to these shores, but now she had given them a sight indeed, a royal procession, queen and princes and their armed and jewelled escort, with, to top all, a sight of King Arthur's own ship with its dragon standard waiting to shepherd the Ore to the mainland kingdom.

    The Wicked Day Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1983

  • The hobbit-hero, Bilbo Baggins, is a small, cheerful, comfort-loving humanoid, with feet that require no shoes and toes covered with thick brown hair.

    The Hobbit Habit Adams, Robert M. 1977

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.