endear
verb (used with object)
to make dear, esteemed, or beloved.
were endearing
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past progressiveof endear.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Sam Neill is one of the few celebrities whose quarantine web videos were endearing rather than embarrassing.
From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2020
Her ardent scenes with the appealing young tenor Mr. Volkov, who played Lykov, her fiancé and childhood friend, were endearing.
From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2014
And what was she turning into, thinking that the Rude boys were endearing?
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
But in girlhood generally they were endearing, almost cloying, naturally constant and, when otherwise, made so by man and the spectacle of court corruption.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
It was in German, and its expressions and contents, though simple, were endearing and natural.
From Homeward Bound or, the Chase by James Fenimore Cooper
