amatory

Example Sentences

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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

There is not much of this in the amatory or convivial poetry of the moderns.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John