doting
Americanadjective
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excessively fond.
doting parents.
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showing a decline of mental faculties, especially associated with old age; weak-minded; senile.
Other Word Forms
- dotingly adverb
- dotingness noun
- undoting adjective
Etymology
Origin of doting
Example Sentences
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Fans won’t ever know exactly why the doting parents lapsed in their watch of the eggs a month ago, though the nonprofit believes they had their reasons.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026
She said her son, who had a life-long passion for cars, was the "most loving, laid-back, sensitive man" who was a doting father to his own son.
From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026
We’re a long way from Norman Rockwell’s Saturday Evening Post portraits of doting parents taking their rosy-cheeked children to the avuncular family doctor for back-to-school checkups.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026
She softens the character’s steely edges, turning a proud and almost rapacious woman into a mere doting mom.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026
Luckily for Penelope, back on land Captain Strøm was the doting father to a houseful of tall, strong-limbed daughters, and it was not in his great Nordic heart to toss her overboard.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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