enamored

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One particular hint that he's self-enamored is his practice of beginning answers / statements with the command "look," as though he's the all-knowing entity imparting wisdom on the lesser mortals.

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  • Though adept with his rifle, his success lay more in his woodcraft than his accuracy, for the best hunter got close enough to his game without detection that even an indifferent shot must strike home.26 So enamored was Crockett of this wilderness experience that he stayed through the winter, though such may have been his intent from the time he left Lawrence County. —  Three Roads to Alamo
  • Her books are the kind that I can hand to my friends who only read mainstream and they are immediately enamored -- not realizing that they're reading a fantasy, for all the fantastical goings on in their pages. —  F ;SF - vol 105 issue 03 - September 2003
  • Was but the lovely H—k as much enamored, you would not sigh, my gentle swain, in vain. —  Oliver Goldsmith
  • She picked through the bowls that Great-great-Grandmother brought in from the garden and tossed those not perfectly swollen or those with seeds too coarse to the dogs who ate them greedily then panted at her feet and became worthless hunters, so enamored were they with the sweet. —  FSFOct/Nov2004
  • One particular hint that he's self-enamored is his practice of beginning answers / statements with the command "look," as though he's the all-knowing entity imparting wisdom on the lesser mortals. —  Think Progress
 

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perturb ·  distraught ·  unsure ·  averse ·  enthral ·  overjoyed ·  unfitted ·  unimpressed ·  ashamed ·  intoxicated ·  engrossed ·  deranged
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
 

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