loverlike
- a word derived from lover.
Example Sentences
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And later they would laugh about that, about how strange it was that their marriage should have turned so loverlike after so many years.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
They were in good spirits now, and for the rest of the evening were as loverlike as always, the nearer together for the bit of rough sea they had weathered so nicely.
From The Grain of Dust by Phillips, David Graham
When Thorpe left the room, he had half made up his mind not to call on Nina Randolph that evening; he felt in anything but a loverlike mood.
From A Daughter of the Vine by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
He had recovered himself, had defined his passing reserve in loverlike terms, and was newly aware of unworthiness.
From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 by Various
Truly there is something womanly about Night, something loverlike in a vast impersonal way; but too big—she is too terribly big to woo with human sentiment.
From The River and I by Neihardt, John G.
