admiring
adjective
displaying or feeling admiration.
half-admiring
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a word derived from
admiring.
Example Sentences
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The site’s annual ‘‘What Time Is the Super Bowl?’’ post has become such a famous example of S.E.O.-driven non-news that other media outlets have written half-disgusted, half-admiring posts dissecting its history.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2015
As Europe tilted towards war, his earnestness won him a title that was half-admiring, half-contemptuous: "This formidable young man who loves peace so terribly."
From Time Magazine Archive
Exposed only after he fled to Moscow in 1963, "Kim" Philby has since become the protagonist of a half-admiring, half-shocked avalanche of serialized articles in every major London newspaper.
From Time Magazine Archive
"You see, sir," said Greenwood, in a half-admiring and half-apologizing way, "both North and South are mostly of good English breed and they don't know when they are whipped."
From The Measure of a Man by Frank T. (Frank Thayer) Merrill
The children gazed at them, half frightened, half-admiring, and wrapped themselves more closely in the warm, fleecy cloud.
From Five Mice in a Mouse-trap by the Man in the Moon. by Addie Ledyard
