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Meanings of doting in English

Extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent.

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Examples for "fond"
1
I remember she was particularly fond of working with our young charges.'
Stonewielder
2
Not in the least; the natives are not fond of night work.
Rujub, the Juggler
3
The situation was fubar, as the Yank soldiers were fond of saying.
A beautiful place to die
4
I'm quite fond of my two cats, who don't ask for much.
The Irish Times
5
She had grown fond of their aroma, particularly after a good meal.
The promise
1
She emerges as driven and difficult, with a need for adoring courtiers.
The Guardian
2
Leonard Cohen has no way to say goodbye to his adoring fanbase.
The Irish Times
3
Bureaucrats wouldn't put up with what his adoring working-class patients would accept.
The warmth of other suns: the epic story of america's great migr...
4
This time there were no adoring crowds to prevent her from escaping.
Paths of glory
5
They also fill the soul of the rapt beholder with adoring wonder.
Among the Forces
Usage of doting in English
1
Clara saw it all, and knew that her aunt was almost doting.
The Belton Estate
2
I fell into the hands of a doting old architect of Paris.
The President: A Novel
3
Up in the stands, the members and his once doting fans fidgeted.
The Guardian
4
But these were not always times of delight to the doting parent.
The Iron Game: A Tale of the War
5
It's my job to be doting, that comes with being a grandmother.
Reuters
6
He meditateth night and day, doting on the image of his fancy.
The True Woman / A Series of Discourses, to Which Is Added Woman...
7
Our vow renewal was imperfectly perfect for us, the doting bride revealed.
Ebony
8
So far our doting uncle, Kitty; but 'tis indeed a fair creature.
"The Ladies": A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty
9
On this subject I am like a doting grandmother, but forgive it.
In Flanders Fields, and Other Poems
10
Now, though, you couldn't ask for a more doting husband and father.
The inconvenient bride
11
He treated her like a queen, doting on her the whole evening.
Forbidden Blood
12
Lucy couldn't believe her husband, Sara's doting father, was talking like this.
Bake sale murder
13
She's an only child, I believe, and has a perfectly doting father.
Blue Bonnet in Boston; or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's
14
Calum Hood of 5SOS took his doting mum to the star-studded party.
News.com.au
15
Too fatally secure hast thou been; too doting in thy confidence in others.
Jane Talbot
16
For Joy, those were the good times, with a doting, if temporary, father.
French pressed
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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