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Synonyms for endearing

Grammar : Adj

Spell : en-deer-ing

Phonetic Transcription : ɛnˈdɪər ɪŋ

Définition of endearing

Origin : 1660s, present participle adjective from endear. Related: Endearingly.

adj lovable

Example sentences :

To be familiar and endearing with them all—and so make me mad with envying them.
Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens

Nor is it, as has been too often supposed, a cheerless life of toil and fatigue, but has many substantial and endearing charms.
Extract from : « Address delivered by Hon. Henry H. Crapo, Governor of Michigan, before the Central Michigan Agricultural Society, at their Sheep-shearing Exhibition held at the Agricultural College Farm, on Thursday, May 24th, 1866 » by Henry Howland Crapo

Lydia caught at the endearing word, and something like a spasm moved her face.
Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown

The endearing term came for the first time from the man's lips.
Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 » by Various

This is the most endearing word that one human being can use to another.
Extract from : « George Bowring - A Tale Of Cader Idris » by R. D. Blackmore

As I was the youngest of the party, he received me with the most endearing familiarity.
Extract from : « Ernest Linwood » by Caroline Lee Hentz

"My Duchess" was the endearing title at the top of the page.
Extract from : « The Greater Love » by George T. McCarthy

She would not have dared to teach her children these endearing ways.
Extract from : « 'Our guy' » by Mrs. E. E. Boyd

Then he put his arm round her with an endearing word or two.
Extract from : « Lover or Friend » by Rosa Nouchette Carey

She began to sob and called him by all sorts of endearing names.
Extract from : « Original Short Stories, Volume 10 (of 13) » by Guy de Maupassant

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