darling
noun
a person very dear to another; one dearly loved.
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“Oh look, Ronaldinho’s dancing on the pitch! How darlingly daring! How harmlessly charming!” we thought as he set us up; “Oh”, we then found ourselves thinking as he knocked us down.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2017