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overaffectionate

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  • You played the grandfather in that overaffectionate family sketch.

    Will Forte Talks Sticking His Tongue Down James Franco's Throat 2010

  • The prospect of motherhood evoked ambivalence for many women, given the recurring theme of 1950s social science and popular culture that almost all of society’s ills could be blamed on rejecting, overprotective, domineering, emasculating, or even just “overaffectionate” mothers.

    The Barbie Chronicles Yona Zeldis McDonough 1999

  • The prospect of motherhood evoked ambivalence for many women, given the recurring theme of 1950s social science and popular culture that almost all of society’s ills could be blamed on rejecting, overprotective, domineering, emasculating, or even just “overaffectionate” mothers.

    The Barbie Chronicles Yona Zeldis McDonough 1999

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