fondling
Example Sentences
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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
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
This has been going on forever – certainly since Ovid wrote of Pygmalion kissing and fondling his statue until the gods took pity.
From The Guardian • Jul. 29, 2017
“I was mired in envy,” Ozick told me, nervously fondling a napkin and smoothing and resmoothing the checkered burgundy tablecloth.
From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2016
Jake loitered on a corner, fondling the change in his pocket.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
