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dovelike

adjective as in dewy-eyed

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Example Sentences

He found himself taken under a dovelike protectorship; a wonderful, inexpressible Being seemed to have become his proprietor.

Isabel crimsoned hotly; the glance she darted at her late escort was not dovelike.

Zoraya appears first shimmering in moonlight upon the hills of Spain,—dovelike in voice, serpentining in seductiveness.

It floated through the dim atmosphere into our consciousness, holding us as in a dream, dovelike and soothing.

The mater had always said that she must be a quaint and demure little thing—in short, dovelike.

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On this page you'll find 10 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dovelike, such as: green, inexperienced, naive, pure, sinless, and uncorrupted.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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