Loverlike

And the jewel idea is nice, but hardly very loverlike. ❋ Alix Rickloff (2011)

Suddenly, his expression was anything but loverlike. ❋ Cherry Adair (2010)

There was nothing quite loverlike in the way they interacted. ❋ Jan Burke (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (2006)

And there was nothing remotely loverlike about the way he treated her. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2005)

There was just the right ripple of amusement in her tone to totally depress any loverlike pretensions Ferdinand was nursing. ❋ Laurens, Stephanie (2004)

But if he was courting herit was just a bit difficult to be loverlike when he never saw her except in the company of ten or twenty other people. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2003)

Her first loverlike kiss — hardly surprising it so fascinated her. ❋ Laurens, Stephanie (2003)

His letters now; though neither long nor loverlike, were more regular than ever they had been before; and when he did return, to my great joy, instead of being worse than when he went, he was more cheerful and vigorous, and better in every respect. ❋ Unknown (2002)

In Do I Wake or Sleep the relationship between the exquisite Bridget (for whom Wilson fell as Bolton's surrogate) and the rough-hewn Millicent is loverlike in the teasing French manner rather than today's klutzy American style where each would have had to wear an auctorial label and, if sympathetic, behave correctly according to rules laid down by the heirs and heiresses of Cotton Mather. ❋ Vidal, Gore (1997)

He wanted to say something loverlike but felt inhibited by her cheerful, matter-of-fact attitude. ❋ Beaton, M. C. (1997)

Their behavior wasn't really loverlike, but it was the closest he'd ever seen Kris come to it. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1988)

They moved to the open window, arms around one another, loverlike. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1988)