Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an amorous manner; fondly; lovingly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an amorous manner; fondly.
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- adverb In an
amorous orloving manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in an amorous manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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-- a sensational "scene" played out before a house of loafers, and now the babel of thousand-tongued gossip, linking her name amorously (so she suspected) with the red-painted ne'er-do-well.
V. V.'s Eyes Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905
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Ms. Barker barges right past such norms of professionalism and reveals to her exhausted reader that Mr. Sharif pursued her amorously, foisting himself forward as a potential "friend."
C. Christine Fair: Baffled by The Taliban Shuffle C. Christine Fair 2011
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Fletcher Munson: [wife snuggles up amorously] Ooh!
A Trailer for Every Academy Award Winning Movie Ever « Gerry Canavan 2010
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Ms. Barker barges right past such norms of professionalism and reveals to her exhausted reader that Mr. Sharif pursued her amorously, foisting himself forward as a potential "friend."
C. Christine Fair: Baffled by The Taliban Shuffle C. Christine Fair 2011
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I'll just return to my fears, with which I am amorously familiar.
Run and hit Tom Toles 2010
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Jamie Lloyd's first-rate production intersplices the martial and the romantic to disturbing effect from the beginning: light filters prettily through Christopher Oram's lovely louvred-door design on to the couple tussling amorously in bed.
Hamlet; Passion; Beautiful Burnout; Wanderlust Susannah Clapp 2010
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A patron's relationship with bar staff swings between the desire for chummy and/or flirtatious companionship, and the desire to be left to take care of business, whether that's amorously nuzzling a date, or amorously nuzzling yourself.
Thrillist: Raines Law Room Thrillist 2011
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Ms. Barker barges right past such norms of professionalism and reveals to her exhausted reader that Mr. Sharif pursued her amorously, foisting himself forward as a potential "friend."
C. Christine Fair: Baffled by The Taliban Shuffle C. Christine Fair 2011
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Martha, who was pretty, blond, and amorously adventurous, had written a surprisingly frank book, Through Embassy Eyes, chronicling her early infatuation with Hitler and her affairs with handsome Gestapo officers before she understood what was really happening in Germany.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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Martha, who was pretty, blond, and amorously adventurous, had written a surprisingly frank book, Through Embassy Eyes, chronicling her early infatuation with Hitler and her affairs with handsome Gestapo officers before she understood what was really happening in Germany.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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