Doting

Word DOTING
Character 6
Hyphenation dot ing
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Doting"

What do we mean by doting?

(usually with on) To be weakly or foolishly fond of somebody.

To act in a foolish manner; to be senile.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Doting

The word "doting" in example sentences

The thought of her honor, so carefully guarded, and so unhappily lost, was torture to her; but the worst was her fear that her lover had broken his word to her, which she did not believe he could ever have done unless he loved some fairer lady, and in doting fondness had suffered her to extort the secret from him. ❋ Unknown (1855)

Car dealer Sajid Siddique was described as a "doting" father and police said it would have been completely out of character for him to leave his wife and three young children. ❋ Unknown (2012)

L/Cpl McKee was described as a "doting husband and family man" who had showed "enormous strength" after his two-day-old daughter passed away last year. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He endeavours to convince sinners of their folly in doting upon the wealth of this world, by showing them (1.) ❋ Unknown (1721)

Today his family issued a tribute, through Gwent Police, to the 17 year old they described as a doting father who gave up college work to support his family. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is here explicitly declared that this doctrine, the obedience of slaves to their masters, are the words of our Lord Jesus Christ; and the arguments of its opposers are characterized as doting sillily about questions and strifes of words, and therefore unworthy of reply and refutation. ❋ E. N. [Editor] Elliott (N/A)

Again I should remind Harris that in America we don't let children decide the judicial fates of their law-breaking "doting" dads. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Spencer Brown came to my work the other day, and I talked to him for a bit, and then when he left, my coworker Chris told me I was "doting" on him the whole time. ❋ Withkerth (2004)

Friends of a woman being questioned by police on suspicion of murdering her two-year-old son have described her as a "doting" mother. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Exclusive Jason Swindlehurst was a "doting" father who met his wife through TV talk show Kilroy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It was at a wedding feast that "they called for Dates and Quinces in the pastry;" and Brand quotes a curious passage from the "Praise of Musicke," 1586 ( "Romeo and Juliet" was published in 1596) -- "I come to marriages, wherein as our ancestors did fondly, and with a kind of doting, maintaine many rites and ceremonies, some whereof were either shadowes or abodements of a pleasant life to come, as the eating of a Quince Peare to be a preparative of sweet and delightful dayes between the married persons." ❋ Henry Nicholson Ellacombe (1868)

"doting" dad was only caught because he tried to sell his kid to an undercover News of the World reporter, who was masquerading as a sheik. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And someone mentioned it up there that they are very doting on their Mamas and I can confirm that. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The creative team realized that if Brüno tried to appear to be a selfless, doting father, he could (in his mind) vault his status in the celebrity community. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They whisper sweet Michael Caines to each other, doting on subtle deviations in timbre, volume and pitch. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2011)

(Tom Wopat) is a failure in business and marriage, but he is a doting father to his son (Aaron Tveit), who suffers from similar delusions of grandeur. ❋ Pia Catton (2011)

Her Princess Pass, pushed onto her by her doting male friends and long accepted by her, had removed that awareness. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Jean-Paul's ideal customer is the fresh-faced teenage girl, on the cusp of adult life, escorted to the Paris flagship store by her doting, affluent mummy to have a lifelong fragrance selected for her by a team of haughty ladies quacking on about top notes of cedar and base notes of aardvark or artichoke. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A contented old man, a doting young 'un driving through the night, answering to his every whim. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Charlies, her newborn son, presents her with a myriad wonders of a new life, and doting father Jamie presents her with an intriguing proposal: marriage. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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