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  • adjective Tending to swoon or faint

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swoon +‎ -y

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Examples

  • The "swoony" element in Keats 'sensuality (as when Porphyro grows "faint") I tried hard to like, and failed.

    Surprised by Joy Lewis, C. S. 1955

  • There is no such word as ‘swoony,’ I said indignantly.

    Times Squared Julia DeVillers 2011

  • All epic landscapes, cinematic ambitions and cosmic crescendos, packed with so many swoony moods, chiming guitars and propulsive tempo shifts that you lose count 10 minutes into it, and don't care in the slightest.

    Mark Morford: The Top 10 Most Awesome Albums of 2011 Mark Morford 2011

  • All epic landscapes, cinematic ambitions and cosmic crescendos, packed with so many swoony moods, chiming guitars and propulsive tempo shifts that you lose count 10 minutes into it, and don't care in the slightest.

    Mark Morford: The Top 10 Most Awesome Albums of 2011 Mark Morford 2011

  • All I want in someone that makes me all swoony. from → Uncategorized

    Cancelled « 2010

  • This involved a fair act of balancing, what with Willa in the sling and Lena sort of swoony, and Theo himself only a few feet high.

    Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011

  • This involved a fair act of balancing, what with Willa in the sling and Lena sort of swoony, and Theo himself only a few feet high.

    Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011

  • There's a clever reference to Fawlty Towers as they settle in, with a tangible realism that distinguishes Being Human from swoony adolescent melodramas like The Vampire Diaries and the Twilight saga.

    Roush Review: Being Human and More Weekend TV 2011

  • There is no such word as ‘swoony,’ I said indignantly.

    Times Squared Julia DeVillers 2011

  • Also special: Kurt, who gets a big swoony win as well — no trophy, but a trophy boyfriend, plus a performance spotlight alongside Blaine after schooling the Warblers star on his "numerous" solos: "I feel like we're Blaine and the Pips."

    Matt's TV Week in Review 2011

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