Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to people who are looking for companions or marriage partners.
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- noun Plural form of
lonely-heart . - adjective Describing a
newspaper column in which people attempt to find friends of the opposite sex
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Examples
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Clemence is addicted to answering lonely-hearts adverts, but is perpetually disappointed because each time she arranges to meet someone, he immediately abandons the old woman on sight.
July 2009 Maxine 2009
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Clemence is addicted to answering lonely-hearts adverts, but is perpetually disappointed because each time she arranges to meet someone, he immediately abandons the old woman on sight.
PETRONA Maxine 2009
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Clemence is addicted to answering lonely-hearts adverts, but is perpetually disappointed because each time she arranges to meet someone, he immediately abandons the old woman on sight.
Books Maxine 2009
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Clemence is addicted to answering lonely-hearts adverts, but is perpetually disappointed because each time she arranges to meet someone, he immediately abandons the old woman on sight.
Sunday Salon: The Chalk Circle Man, by Fred Vargas, translated by Sian Reynolds Maxine 2009
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Clemence is addicted to answering lonely-hearts adverts, but is perpetually disappointed because each time she arranges to meet someone, he immediately abandons the old woman on sight.
Reading Maxine 2009
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Clemence is addicted to answering lonely-hearts adverts, but is perpetually disappointed because each time she arranges to meet someone, he immediately abandons the old woman on sight.
Sunday Salon: The Chalk Circle Man, by Fred Vargas, translated by Sian Reynolds Maxine 2009
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Incidental ironies of the slacker demi-monde or mundane abound, as a predominantly male lonely-hearts club seeks solace in the spiral groove.
Punks, Painters, Prodigies, Pariahs Steve Dollar 2011
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Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck met through a lonely-hearts correspondence club and fell hard for each other.
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Veteran players Stewart and Sullavan are a perfect match as comically antagonistic lonely-hearts, conveying their characters' vulnerabilities with a delicacy too often missing from the tepid Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan remake, You've Got Mail 1998.
John Farr: Laughing in Style: That Special 'Lubitsch Touch' John Farr 2011
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Clemence is addicted to answering lonely-hearts adverts, but is perpetually disappointed because each time she arranges to meet someone, he immediately abandons the old woman on sight.
Book review Maxine 2009
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