[
US
/ˈɫəvɪŋ/
]
[ UK /lˈʌvɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /lˈʌvɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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feeling or showing love and affection
loving parents
loving glances
How To Use loving In A Sentence
- You need financial security and the support of a loving partner to cope with those demands. The Sun
- Committed by parents, teachers, priests or minders it undermines trust and dependency, disrupts relations with authority figures and can interfere with loving and learning.
- Before scrubbing, gowning, and gloving, the surgeon usually performs a rectal examination and proctoscopy to suction out any remaining stool in the distal rectum.
- It was a day for the children who were special in some way and also for their loving parents who showered them with constant attention and unbounded affection.
- I just hadn't realised that so many straight men could be so selfish and unloving towards their offspring.
- Wilder grew up loving Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, but his great idol was famed director Ernst Lubitsch.
- The result is a species of amphitheatric arena, in which any of the dramatic exhibitions, that are so pleasing to this spectacle-loving nation, may be enacted. Recollections of Europe
- He's intelligent, witty, a loving husband, and an excellent cook into the bargain.
- Such actively passive self-surrender is thus the necessary beginning of the regeneration on which loving union depends. The Times Literary Supplement
- He has left behind a secure home, a loving family and a glittering array of school prizes. Times, Sunday Times