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amorous play

NOUN
dalliance
Synonyms
STRONGEST
fling
STRONG
affair relationship seduction toying
WEAK
a little on the side carrying-on fooling around frolicking hanky-panky messing around working late at office
Antonyms
WEAK
hastening hurrying push rush

Example Sentences

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How dry it was on a far-back day    When straws hung the hedge and around, When amid the sheaves in amorous play In curtained bonnets and light array    Bloomed a bevy now underground!

From Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses by Hardy, Thomas

Now list to me, Sir Thunye the knight,    Give up, I beg, this amorous play; I have already a bridegroom bold,    The King whom all the dwarfs obey.

From Ermeline a ballad by Borrow, George Henry