fawnin a sentencegrouped by contextual meaning
fawn as in: fawned all over her
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She fawns all over her children.fawns = shows excessive flattery or affection
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It's disgusting to watch her fawn over everything her boss says while she hopes for a promotion.fawn = show excessive flattery or affection
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When that first crew had come, I had been a desperate thing, ready to fawn on anyone who smiled at me. (source)fawn = show excessive affection
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Khanum Taheri's chaperoning made our meetings, if not gossip-proof, then less gossip-worthy, even if her borderline fawning on me clearly embarrassed Soraya. (source)fawning = showing excessive flattery or affection
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I bet Krum can see right through him, though…. bet he gets people fawning over him all the time… (source)
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How the court ladies must fawn over you! (source)fawn = show excessive flattery or affection
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I find myself pleased when slum people bow and scrape and fawn over me. (source)fawn = show excessive flattery or affection
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Then, what submission, what cringing and fawning, what servility, what abject humiliation! (source)fawning = showing excessive flattery or affection
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Saw a groundhog, saw a doe with two fawns, and saw a gray fox with a reddish head.† (source)fawns = shows excessive flattery or affection
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"You look like a man of distinction," the guide fawned, "no doubt more interested in culture than most.† (source)fawned = showed excessive flattery or affection
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When Cynthia's brother Ric visited, he found Louie encircled by fawners and hangers-on, all trying to exploit him.† (source)
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He was desperate to know how to please Dr. Bassiouni and started getting to know every professor in the department, working out the times when he was in his best mood, and then getting him on his own and telling him fawningly, "I would like to benefit from your experience, Professor.† (source)fawningly = in a manner that that demonstrates excessive flattery or affection
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Seeing Telemachus, the watchful dogs Bark'd not, but fawn'd around him.† (source)fawn'd = showed excessive flattery or affection
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When I protest true loyalty to her, She twits me with my falsehood to my friend; When to her beauty I commend my vows, She bids me think how I have been forsworn In breaking faith with Julia whom I lov'd; And notwithstanding all her sudden quips, The least whereof would quell a lover's hope, Yet, spaniel-like, the more she spurns my love The more it grows and fawneth on her still.† (source)fawneth = shows excessive flattery or affectionstandard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She fawneth" in older English, today we say "She fawns."
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Edmund Quincy spoke bitterly of the "ineffable meanness of the lion turned spaniel in his fawnings on the masters whose hands he was licking for the sake of the dirty puddings they might have to toss to him."† (source)
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Are we all jackals, to fawn on this cattle butcher? (source)fawn = show excessive affection
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As she broke around a stand of reeds, a whitetail doe with last spring's fawn stood lapping water. (source)fawn = young deer
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Suddenly on the path ahead appeared some white deer, a hind and fawns as snowy white as the hart had been dark. (source)
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Slowly, as though she might spring like a startled fawn, he walked over and studied it in her hand. (source)
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Many times she'd seen marsh waters swallow yesterday's story: deer prints by a creek or bobcat tracks near a dead fawn, vanished. (source)fawn = young deer
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But as he got into his boat, he said, "Kya, when you see me out in the marsh, please don't hide in the grass like a spotted fawn." (source)
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