(a.) Having qualities that excite, or are fitted to excite, love; worthy of love.
Example Sentences:
(1) If you're sincere and smart and genuine and lovable that's what's going to come across in your videos and tweets."
(2) Although he could be lovable, charming, whimsical, encouraging, and deeply devoted to his family, he subjugated the adult women in his household and at least one son to exploitation and abuse, demanding (and receiving from his wife and step-daughter) almost total abnegation of self.
(3) The cathartic moment, in which the king realises he's OK and lovable just as he is, was wonderful for the film-makers to discover, and has been wonderful for worldwide audiences ever since (and the king doesn't die… he merely "croaks").
(4) Behind all its variety the paper always reflected David's own personality and interests: it was as lovable or hateable as a single human being.
(5) Inspired by chaos, Floyd would address the crew as often as the camera, would get palpably squiffy as programmes wore on, would indulge in any manner of derring-do (from playing rugby with Welshmen to shooting seals and eating puffins) and would be lovably madcap.
(6) Of course it is the hyperbolic silliness – the make-or-break trifle sponge, custard thefts, and prolonged ruminations over "The Crumb" – that makes The Great British Bake Off so lovable.
(7) It also offers a memento of, and a comment on, the more instantly lovable work finished decades before – of the rich and longstanding relationship of a master of still life with kitchen pots and pans.
(8) To feel lovable a child needs an enduring responsive relationship that conveys positive regard.
(9) Scott Pilgrim – and his peers in the likes of American Pie, Kick-Ass and Superbad – are presented as lovable losers, but compared to Marty they're creeps: self-absorbed, fixated on social hierarchy, only interested in niceness and decency if it helps them lure a girl into bed.
(10) The sinologist Ryan Mitchell notes that in a 1948 article, a veteran Chinese communist called Xi Zhongxun was quoted as saying “the most lovable qualities of us Communist party folks are devotion and sincerity”.
(11) To emphasise the point, the Batmobile steals every scene it's in, juggernauting across the Gotham rooftops in a spectacular chase that ends with Wayne earning a spanking from his lovable cockney butler Michael Caine.
(12) Turturro's Woody – still playing Woody Allen because, really, Woody Allen is the only role he knows how to play – loses a lot of the snippiness and self-absorption of the Woody-built Woody, and it's a small joy to witness him being so lovable, witty and wise – and so unneurotic.
(13) Author Rich Cohen wrote in the New York Times: “For as long as anyone remembers, following the Cubs has meant embracing futility, choosing the losers over the winners, seeing the romance in failure.” The “lovable losers” have suffered a legendary curse ever since a tavern owner, barred from a World Series game in 1945 because he was trying to bring in a malodorous goat , proclaimed that they would never win the title again.
(14) They may pretend to be interested in football, politics and cars, but deep down they are still dazzled by shiny things and are the same infuriatingly lovable little bundles of fun they've always been – bless 'em – and the double whammy of fine wines and Belgian chocolates will always open a lot of doors.
(15) Kehazaei’s mother, Goldone , told Guardian Australia her son was “gentle and loving”, a “very sensitive, harmless lovable person”.
(16) "Maybe certain ages, for sure, but the Muppets are so real and so lovable and colourful.
(17) Joey is a Friends spin-off in which Le Blanc's lovably dumb character from the long-running comedy hit relocates to Los Angeles to further his acting career.
(18) SH Sky Atlantic, 13 September Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cilla Two years after writer Jeff Pope and actor Sheridan Smith collaborated on a drama about the Great Train Robbery – bringing her an acting trophy from Bafta for her portrayal of robber’s wife Charmaine Biggs and him a mini-series nomination – the same team turn to a more lovable aspect of 1960s culture in this Cilla Black life story.
(19) The amount of music available in 2010 is so vast that it helps for an authoritative voice to guide through its maze, and 6 Music has tonnes of them, such as the razor-sharp Lauren Laverne and the lovable Gideon Coe.
(20) It appears likely that Adam Driver, better known for playing the lovably awkward Adam in TV series Girls, has beaten Michael Fassbender and Hugo Weaving to the role of a Darth Vader-esque villain .
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.