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enjoy time together in a friendly way — especially when such a friendship is thought to be wrong- Our diplomats are told not to fraternize with prostitutes.
fraternize = enjoy time together in a friendly way
- discourages managers from fraternizing with those who report to them
- "His top advisers in the campaign are lobbyists," Obama told his traveling press, making no secret of his disdain for politicians who fraternize with influence brokers.Time, 2008 -- http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1813602,00.html (retrieved 10/02/09)
- comforting her said Majesty's enemies, harbouring spies and fraternizing with Humans.C.S. Lewis -- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- Is one friend forbidden to visit another, or a Musketeer of my company to fraternize with a Guard of Dessessart's company?Dumas, Alexandre -- The Three Musketeers
- But for the moment people in very different walks of life were rubbing shoulders, fraternizing.Albert Camus -- The Plague
- He would have fraternized with obscure Hottentots.Stephen Crane -- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
- Famous equality and fraternisation!Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
- So now I know I'm a materialist and I was fraternizing with the hay when you came out and stood by the woods, scared to death."F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
- She's in the other pannier of this horse, fraternizing with the man in charge.'John Wyndham -- The Chrysalids
- Dowley and I fraternized at once; I had had just such picked men, splendid fellows, under me in the Colt Arms Factory.Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- This was done to prevent any fraternization with the political prisoners.Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
- They pay me to appraise, not fraternize.Ken Kesey -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- What happened to the rule of not fraternizing with the Daughters of Men?Susan Ee -- Angelfall
- Ron was obviously casting around for words strong enough to describe Hermione's crime, "fraternizing with the enemy, that's what you're doing!"J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- "Because someone'll hear you been fraternizing with roustabouts and chuck you—or more likely these guys—off this thing," he says.Sara Gruen -- Water for Elephants
- Fashion understands itself; good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other.Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
- It was as if they had climbed out of their opposing trenches and met to fraternize among the wires in No Man's Land.Graham Greene -- The Power and the Glory
- Frankly, though, I'd just as soon the officers and enlisted men didn't fraternize in the briefing room.Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
- It marked the first time the two groups fraternized together under official sanction.Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
fraternizing = enjoying time together in a friendly way