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amatory

[am-uh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] / ˈæm əˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i /


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Lapine, making his feature film debut, doesn’t have the technique to turn this amatory whirl into a lyrical roundelay.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2023

With what “late-assembled court of morals”? “Biography is a collection of holes tied together with string, and nowhere more so than with the sexual and amatory life,” he writes.

From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2020

The contest precipitates a flurry of events: literary, amatory, monetary and minatory.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 6, 2017

Despite the let-it-all-hang-out philosophy today, I still believe this desire for privacy is a general human feeling – look at the outraged squalls of celebrities who have been outed in some amatory misdoing or other.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 15, 2012

Of satires, and small poems in the witty or amatory style, there was no end.

From The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays by David Masson


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