endearment
Origin of endearment
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How to use endearment in a sentence
In our texts we exchanged mutual endearments in words and emojis.
Alaska’s Attorney General on Unpaid Leave After Sending Hundreds of “Uncomfortable” Texts to a Young Colleague | by Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News | August 25, 2020 | ProPublicaBae,” for example, is a term of endearment that is either short for “baby” or an acronym for “before anyone else.
Feminist, Bae, Turnt: Time’s ‘Worst Words’ List Is Sexist and Racist | Samantha Allen | November 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST(She addresses me in various terms of endearment, as one would an old friend, and invites me to swim in her pool after lunch).
“The thing that pops into my head is the Shirley MacLaine quote from Terms of endearment,” said Emmerich.
‘The Americans’: Noah Emmerich on Playing Stan Beeman, ‘Jane Got a Gun,’ and More | Jason Lynch | May 1, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTTerms of endearment got made because Polly Platt was so persistent.
My mom remembers us actually watching Terms of endearment with my father when he was sick.
Speak, Faulty Memory: Why Memoir Writing Is Harder Than You Think | Dave Bry | April 3, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAll these things are matter of course to all Frenchmen, who are never at a loss for civility and terms of endearment.
He never let fall a syllable of endearment, yet Carry and the children read something in his face which said more.
Alone | Marion HarlandShe uttered a mild preliminary oath of endearment and suddenly ceased speaking.
The Fiend's Delight | Dod GrileThe words of endearment, withheld so severely in his waking hours, were inexpressibly sweet to her forlorn and hungry heart.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Thomas HardyThe endearment is so plaintively inept that she smiles in spite of herself, and resigns herself to indulge him a little.
You Never Can Tell | George Bernard Shaw
British Dictionary definitions for endearment
/ (ɪnˈdɪəmənt) /
something that endears, such as an affectionate utterance
the act or process of endearing or the condition of being endeared
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