(superl.) Foolishly tender and loving; weakly indulgent; over-affectionate.
(superl.) Affectionate; loving; tender; -- in a good sense; as, a fond mother or wife.
(superl.) Loving; much pleased; affectionately regardful, indulgent, or desirous; longing or yearning; -- followed by of (formerly also by on).
(superl.) Doted on; regarded with affection.
(superl.) Trifling; valued by folly; trivial.
(v. t.) To caress; to fondle.
(v. i.) To be fond; to dote.
Example Sentences:
(1) People have grown very fond of the first and fifth amendments,” she reports.
(2) But the large sums that undercut Hillary’s sudden fondness for economic populism will undercut Biden just as much, especially if raised conspicuously quickly.
(3) The original Wednesday Play, succeeded by the long-running Play for Today, is fondly remembered by many of today's best-known writers and directors as the experimental breeding ground for the likes of Dennis Potter, Ken Loach, Tony Garnett, Mike Leigh and Alan Bleasdale.
(4) Bomb them,” we tell Pakistan’s army, “crush them, hit them with all you have got.” Taliban were very fond of showing us videos of them killing us.
(5) I thought: this is a country of law and they will help me get my rights.” She is so fond of the child she looked after for 18 months that she feels ambivalent about any possible prosecution of the parents, her ex-employers.
(6) Another person fondly remembered childhood bed-times when she was comforted by Bournvita.
(7) The near-freebie prices amount to an especially generous giveaway to Venezuelans fond of large SUVs and gas-guzzling jalopies from the 1970s and 80s.
(8) John Londesborough Helsinki, Finland • We Finns are delighted to learn that Michael Booth is fond of us and would like us to rule the world.
(9) Since becoming Denmark's first female prime minister two years ago, Thorning-Schmidt has had to contend with the media nickname of "Gucci Helle", so called because of her fondness for designer clothes.
(10) "I have a fond memory of sitting in one of the dressing rooms, talking about Ireland in the 80s, and her showing me as many of her shamrock tattoos as possible.
(11) You are fond of citing the views of "the employers", along with horror stories about the significance of the international tables we're slipping down.
(12) As evidence of this new-found fondness, the album features a guest appearance from a local Salvation Army band.
(13) When France put an end to capital punishment in 1981, it also bid a not-so-fond farewell to the instrument of death that had taken the lives of thousands.
(14) But it clashed with other things.” Asked what his reaction would be now, he said: “I’d jump at it.” Blessed – who is also fondly remembered for another sci-fi role, appearing as Prince Vultan in the movie Flash Gordon – appeared to be a little confused about the Doctor’s surname, inaccurately suggesting the “Who” of the title was actually the character.
(15) He is fond of recalling what the late Labour leader John Smith told him the last time he appeared on his show - "You have a way of asking beguiling questions with potentially lethal consequences."
(16) If I'm extremely fond of a woman, if I think I might really wind up walking down the aisle again… I go in another direction."
(17) His knowledge of movies is vast – all kinds of movies, and I remember that he had a special fondness for genre pictures and for the work of Walter Hill and others – and he has always been very generous about sharing it with his readers.
(18) These films, of which the British are properly fond and proud, were made possible by a Frenchified Brazilian and the son of recent Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe.
(19) Previous chancellor Gordon Brown was fond of his fiscal "golden rule", but the only real golden rule of modern chancellors is never, ever raise the standard rate of income tax.
(20) His father, who was fond of humming the popular ballad Keep Right on to the End of the Road, lost his job in the great depression of the early 1930s.
Sweet
Definition:
(superl.) Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar; saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges.
(superl.) Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense.
(superl.) Pleasing to the ear; soft; melodious; harmonious; as, the sweet notes of a flute or an organ; sweet music; a sweet voice; a sweet singer.
(superl.) Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair; as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion.
(superl.) Fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water.
(superl.) Not changed from a sound or wholesome state. Specifically: (a) Not sour; as, sweet milk or bread. (b) Not state; not putrescent or putrid; not rancid; as, sweet butter; sweet meat or fish.
(superl.) Plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable; winning; presuasive; as, sweet manners.
(n.) That which is sweet to the taste; -- used chiefly in the plural.
(n.) Confectionery, sweetmeats, preserves, etc.
(n.) Home-made wines, cordials, metheglin, etc.
(n.) That which is sweet or pleasant in odor; a perfume.
(n.) That which is pleasing or grateful to the mind; as, the sweets of domestic life.
(n.) One who is dear to another; a darling; -- a term of endearment.
(adv.) Sweetly.
(v. t.) To sweeten.
Example Sentences:
(1) Previous attempts to purify this enzyme from the liquid endosperm of kernels of Zea mays (sweet corn) were not entirely successful owing to the lability of partially purified preparations during column chromatography.
(2) Try the sweet potato falafel, quinoa, roast vegetables, harissa and sumac yogurt ($23).
(3) Imported sweets and liqueurs were homogenized and extracted with ethyl acetate.
(4) It is concluded that the development was influenced by several factors, such as different snacking habits and access to sweets, the study per se, and xylitol-induced effects.
(5) The halfwidth of the fluorescence emission band increases in parallel with the loss of sweetness.
(6) A sweet-talking man in a suit who enlists the most successful barrister in town holds remarkable sway, I’ve learned.
(7) Rather than ruthlessly efficient, I have found them sweet and a bit hopeless."
(8) The sensitivity of the taste system to the various qualities was, in decreasing order, salty, sweet, sour, and bitter.
(9) A case of Sweet's syndrome developed as a presenting feature of multiple myeloma.
(10) Though the thought of a Panama team listening to the USA team huddle coyly sharing their secrets is a rather sweet thought.
(11) The sweetness of monellin under these two types of denaturing conditions, temperature and pH, can be predicted by the fluorescence emission spectrum of the protein.
(12) Potential, polarization, and pH measurements were performed before and after Coca-Cola and orange juice rinsing and intake of sweets, which were used as test products.
(13) A solid-phase extraction method with a strong anion exchanger was used to determine these compounds in sweet wines and in grape musts.
(14) Sweet flavours were often correctly identified, with the exception of egg nog, but savoury flavours were recognised less frequently.
(15) Thus, the B center of the Shallenberger A-H,B theory of sweetness is best regarded as being -SO3- rather than -SO2- for sulfamates.
(16) in Shibuya-ku goes a little easier on the sugary sweet styles.
(17) Two subjects with Ph-positive chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in whom pustular Sweet's syndrome was diagnosed are reported.
(18) In this paper, the sweetness receptor is refined with use of the shapes of 3-anilino-2-styryl-3H-naphtho[1,2-d]imidazolesulfonate (sweet) and of 3-anilino-2-phenyl-3H-naphtho[1,2-d]imidazolesulfonate (tasteless), two large and almost completely rigid tastants.
(19) It was very sweet, really nice, but it was like an obituary.
(20) Diluted elements of his style were all over the pop charts: Sweet, Mud, Alvin Stardust.