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liking
[ lahy-king ]
noun
- preference, inclination, or favor:
to show a liking for privacy.
Synonyms: affection, fondness, partiality, predilection, propensity, leaning
Antonyms: antipathy
- pleasure or taste:
much to his liking.
liking
/ ˈlaɪkɪŋ /
noun
- the feeling of a person who likes; fondness
- a preference, inclination, or pleasure
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Other Words From
- over·liking noun
- self-liking adjective noun
- under·liking noun
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Example Sentences
And with stand-ups, I remember liking George Carlin and Steve Martin.
“Most people are focused on the holidays anyway,” she continued, before adding something about people liking Cuban sandwiches.
Actually for Conte, who has a passionate aversion to labeling, that may be a bit too much categorization for his liking.
You see, Nolan had been suspended from work hours before the crime for comments about “not liking white people.”
Her T-shirts, which hang on the walls, were—I am told—originally hung too low for her liking, and too unevenly.
Liking for a single colour is a considerably smaller display of mind than an appreciation of the relation of two colours.
Who could have believed that only a fortnight ago these same figures were clean as new pins; smart and well-liking!
I did not perceive that they had any great liking to them at first, neither did they seem to admire anything that we had.
Well, I am glad, for no more can I. I can't think of her liking for papa and baby and all of us to be left to ourselves.
His tie with her was slight, her husband, a clergyman, little to his liking; he had not been near them for several years.
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