doting
adjective
excessively fond.
dotingly
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a word derived from
doting.
Example Sentences
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Another is presumably padded, but her closed lips form a smug and knowing smile, a hand over her bump dotingly, as if to say, “Who knows?”
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2025
The clairin is syrup set on fire, and as we drink, Denis just stares at Durrand, silently, dotingly — reveling, it seems, in how he’s all grown up now.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 2019
Watching dotingly from the side were DiPace and Ditto’s co-owner, Cookie Backelman, who wore a sweatshirt printed with the dog’s image.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 6, 2018
The birds dotingly present their partner with branches, clumps of dried marsh grass and even “decorations.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2015
Lord Luxellian was dotingly fond of the children; rather indifferent towards his wife, since she had begun to show an inclination not to please him by giving him a boy.
From A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy
