fondling

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The hypocrisy is rank enough; in an interview with Oprah Winfrey, the comic-turned-moralizer yells, presumably at the Black parents he disapproves of, “Believe a child when she says somebody’s fondling her!”

From Washington Post • Jan. 30, 2022

Those who worried she couldn’t top 2017’s icy wonderland of lifeless foliage can breathe easily now that we’ve been graced with the image of Trump fondling ornaments with arms characteristically unmoored from her sleeves:

From Slate • Nov. 26, 2018

Ivory doesn't have much success in filling in the elisions, but Guadagnino's direction compounds the superficiality with camerawork that can't resist fondling every surface it encounters.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2018

I would sit in the car, beatifically chewing, fondling a Hamburglar toy or cheap movie tie-in that had come with the food.

From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2016

Jake loitered on a corner, fondling the change in his pocket.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers