fondness 的定义
- the state or quality of being fond.
- tenderness or affection.
- doting affection.
- a liking or weakness for something: He has a fondness for sweets.
- Archaic. complacent credulity; foolishness.
fondness 近义词
liking or taste for
更多fondness例句
- Miss Manners’ fondness for handwritten letters is not merely due to her liking the smell of paper and ink.
- Street vendors are ubiquitous on the city’s landscape, but New Yorkers have a particular fondness for the Christmas tree migrants.
- Take, for example, our mongrel Mitty, whose fondness for chasing sticks was obsessive.
- When it comes to you, she is hampered by a mix of fondness and condescension.
- The separation of scales suggests they’ll need to dig deep to overcome nature’s fondness for concealing its finer points from curious giants like us.
- He's watching it because of his fondness for Bergman and because, he says, “She'll be nervous about my opinion.”
- Among Republicans, this disappointment has translated into what looks like a renewed fondness for interventionism.
- Over the years I developed a special fondness for almost everyone I met there.
- Another memory I have of youthful fondness for the beach concerns tiny bikinis.
- I have a fuzzy memory of fondness for the beach when I was young.
- This judicial bent of the child is a curious one and often develops a priggish fondness for setting others morally straight.
- This had flattered his pride and his fondness for all dumb creatures had made them dear to him beyond his own belief.
- Here we saw many types of the Yorkshire man, famed for his shrewdness and fondness for what we would call "dickering."
- Meggy had her ride, and in the days that followed she had many others and the girl's fondness for Betty became almost worship.
- In fact, the object of her fondness was Spencer Cowper, who was already married.