dotingly

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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

Nouron´ihar, daughter of the Emir Fakreddin; a laughing, beautiful girl, full of fun and pretty mischief, dotingly fond of Gulchenrouz, her cousin, a boy of 13.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham