doting
excessively fond: doting parents.
showing a decline of mental faculties, especially associated with old age; weak-minded; senile.
Origin of doting
1Other words from doting
- dot·ing·ly, adverb
- dot·ing·ness, noun
- un·dot·ing, adjective
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How to use doting in a sentence
He talked dotingly about his new granddaughter, Jenna's baby Mila.
Indeed, a poet hath the same happiness with a man who is dotingly fond of an ugly woman.
From This World to the Next | Henry FieldingShe seemed to have no existence but in me and in our little boy, of whom she was dotingly fond.
Tales And Novels, Volume 2 (of 10) | Maria EdgeworthCare of her devolved particularly upon Terentia, of whom she was dotingly fond.
The Unwilling Vestal | Edward Lucas WhiteNow this Governor had had a wife of whom he was dotingly fond; and one morning when they waked up, lo!
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (Volumes I and II) | Songling Pu
The father was dotingly attached to her, and watched her growth with pride and adoration.
The Mysteries of London, v. 1/4 | George W. M. Reynolds
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