Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Excessively foolish or silly.
- Fond to excess; doting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Fond to excess.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Excessively
fond .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective excessively fond
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Examples
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The new Anna Pigeon mystery reminds me of why I gave up on Nevada Barr years ago (lurid and incoherent); Elizabeth and Mary is repetitive and overfond of the first queen at the expense of the second; the new Dennis Lehane is too hairy-chested; and those New Yorkers pile up as readily on my iPod as they do on the bathroom scales.
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The new Anna Pigeon mystery reminds me of why I gave up on Nevada Barr years ago (lurid and incoherent); Elizabeth and Mary is repetitive and overfond of the first queen at the expense of the second; the new Dennis Lehane is too hairy-chested; and those New Yorkers pile up as readily on my iPod as they do on the bathroom scales.
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Not that he was become afraid, or overfond of the corner by the fire and the well-filled pot.
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The orcs were not overfond of contingency plans, Cairne had learned.
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The orcs were not overfond of contingency plans, Cairne had learned.
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These Berbers, however, are true barbarians, overfond of Búzah (the beer of Osiris) and not unfrequently dangerous.
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Perhaps a little volatile in its politics — the later sixties saw some flirtations with modish Third Worldism, and even a willingness to be gulled by the neo-Stalinist charlatan Louis Althusser — and sometimes overfond of opacity in prose, the NLR strove to uphold a staunch internationalism and an independence from the mental categories of the Cold War.
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Perhaps a little volatile in its politics — the later sixties saw some flirtations with modish Third Worldism, and even a willingness to be gulled by the neo-Stalinist charlatan Louis Althusser — and sometimes overfond of opacity in prose, the NLR strove to uphold a staunch internationalism and an independence from the mental categories of the Cold War.
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Perhaps a little volatile in its politics — the later sixties saw some flirtations with modish Third Worldism, and even a willingness to be gulled by the neo-Stalinist charlatan Louis Althusser — and sometimes overfond of opacity in prose, the NLR strove to uphold a staunch internationalism and an independence from the mental categories of the Cold War.
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Perhaps a little volatile in its politics — the later sixties saw some flirtations with modish Third Worldism, and even a willingness to be gulled by the neo-Stalinist charlatan Louis Althusser — and sometimes overfond of opacity in prose, the NLR strove to uphold a staunch internationalism and an independence from the mental categories of the Cold War.
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