dotingly
Example Sentences
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Another is presumably padded, but her closed lips form a smug and knowing smile, a hand over her bump dotingly, as if to say, “Who knows?”
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2025
The clairin is syrup set on fire, and as we drink, Denis just stares at Durrand, silently, dotingly — reveling, it seems, in how he’s all grown up now.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 2019
Watching dotingly from the side were DiPace and Ditto’s co-owner, Cookie Backelman, who wore a sweatshirt printed with the dog’s image.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 6, 2018
The birds dotingly present their partner with branches, clumps of dried marsh grass and even “decorations.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2015
He was generous, too, when he thought people deserving, and then he dotingly loved my young mistress, and intended to leave her all his money.
From The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea by Tilney, F.C.
