Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
lover or some aspect of one.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective like or in the manner of a lover
Etymologies
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Examples
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And the jewel idea is nice, but hardly very loverlike.
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And the jewel idea is nice, but hardly very loverlike.
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And the jewel idea is nice, but hardly very loverlike.
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Suddenly, his expression was anything but loverlike.
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Suddenly, his expression was anything but loverlike.
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Suddenly, his expression was anything but loverlike.
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There was nothing quite loverlike in the way they interacted.
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For my own part, I am very uneasy to think how I have been drawn on one hand, and driven on the other, into a clandestine, in short, into a mere loverlike correspondence, which my heart condemns.
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And there was nothing remotely loverlike about the way he treated her.
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There was just the right ripple of amusement in her tone to totally depress any loverlike pretensions Ferdinand was nursing.
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