Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Sick or languishing with love or amorous desire: as, a love-sick swain.
- Expressive of languishing love.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Languishing with love or amorous desire.
- adjective Originating in, or expressive of, languishing love.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective languishing because of love
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Examples
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Then tell those love-sick people to run out and buy a product or service because you say so.
AIG Capitalism=Greed John Storhm 2009
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Transforming them into pathetic, naive, love-sick fools who turn around and buy any product or service given away to a cheering studeo audiance or endorsed by their idol.
AIG Capitalism=Greed John Storhm 2009
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The American people became spoiled, foolish, brainwashed, and love-sick.
AIG Capitalism=Greed John Storhm 2009
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On the hour, a love-sick man sang a song below the window.
In the nude Marcus Speh 2011
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The Chief Engineer of the Flagship of the Fleet spent the entire episode whining like a love-sick schoolboy and generally acting like a teenager.
Star Trek: Favorite and Least Favorite Guest Characters from TOS 2009
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The MASSIVE campaign to turn every American into a brainwashed, credit card, pharmaceutical, medical testing, love-sick, celebrity junkie.
AIG Capitalism=Greed John Storhm 2009
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They also know that we are too stupid, short sighted, smitten, and love-sick to take a closer look at the world and see that they are wolves in sheep's clothing.
AIG Capitalism=Greed John Storhm 2009
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The Chief Engineer of the Flagship of the Fleet spent the entire episode whining like a love-sick schoolboy and generally acting like a teenager.
05 « September « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009
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Consummate actress Jennifer Jones makes the leap from an innocent, romantic ghost who enchants a love-sick Joseph Cotten in Portrait of Jennie (1948 pictured below) to the vixen and adulteress Emma Bovary surrounded by admirers (above) in Vincent Minnelli's adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovery (1949) two of the widely contrasting performances just one year apart in the underrated, extraordinary career of Jennifer Jones.
Penelope Andrew: Remembering Jennifer Jones and A Perfect Afternoon at the Movies 2010
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On the contrary Mary, in the film, is seen as an innocent love-sick girl who has been pining for the Crown Prince since she met him as a child.
Archive 2010-02-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2010
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