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also loveable
as in sweet
having qualities that tend to make one loved
she was a lovable child, always helpful and kind
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Recent Examples of lovable
Hudson is never less than lovable as a woman who has always adored and understood basketball but whose interest in the Waves was ignored by her sexist dad.
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Judy Berman, TIME, 27 Feb. 2025
Reilly invests his creation with kindness and humor, qualities that make both the character and the show lovable.
—Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2025
But despite his lovable personality, finding a home for Marlon proved incredibly challenging, and the search went on for over 600 days.
—Matt Robison, Newsweek, 25 Feb. 2025
Amid Baldwin’s chaotic home life with his seven young children, his wife Hilaria Baldwin tries to depict him as a lovable curmudgeon who’s often misunderstood because of his famously volatile personality.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2025
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Judy Berman, TIME, 27 Feb. 2025
Reilly invests his creation with kindness and humor, qualities that make both the character and the show lovable.
—Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2025
But despite his lovable personality, finding a home for Marlon proved incredibly challenging, and the search went on for over 600 days.
—Matt Robison, Newsweek, 25 Feb. 2025
Amid Baldwin’s chaotic home life with his seven young children, his wife Hilaria Baldwin tries to depict him as a lovable curmudgeon who’s often misunderstood because of his famously volatile personality.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lovable
Adjective
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There are plucky steamed chive dumplings with translucent skin, meatball-like shumai teeming with pork, chicken or shrimp, green tea sesame balls (each $1.50 apiece) with Wicked-green dough surrounding sweet black paste.—
Benjy Egel,
Sacbee.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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Perhaps serendipitously, the top-selling scent Nana, infused with the sweet snack persimmon, is based on the woman herself.—
Gemma A. Williams,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Scrim's adventures were a national hit, and now they've been transformed into a beautiful picture book.—
American Booksellers Association,
USA Today,
4 Apr. 2025
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There are these beautiful moments of the scene kind of mirroring the real world experience of having this happen in the show.—
Samantha Highfill,
EW.com,
4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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His fate changes when Jay (Jonathan Groff, going full on adorable) walks into a temple where Naveen’s praying charms the heck out of him.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
4 Apr. 2025
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The Guy's Grocery Games star took to Instagram on Thursday to share two adorable photos of his beloved French Bulldog, Cash Fieri, basking in the sun on a hot Florida day.—
Emily Rella,
People.com,
3 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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So to get to dig into that was something that felt really special and precious to me.—
Hunter Ingram,
Variety,
6 Apr. 2025
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Actual samples of lunar regolith are rare and precious, and therefore simulants, which aim to replicate different types of regolith, are used for experiments instead.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
6 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Nicotiana sylvestris Sun Exposure: Dappled shade Soil Type: Organic loam Soil pH: Slightly acidic 11 of 11 Wishbone Flower Wishbone flower is a low-growing annual with lovely two-toned, two-lipped, tubular purple or pink flowers.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
5 Apr. 2025
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Starts out with savory aromas of herbs and wild mushrooms that morphs to brambly berries with a hint of forest floor and licorice on the finish that has lots of tannins with a lovely round quality that gives volume to this full-bodied wine.—
Cathrine Todd,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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“Lovable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lovable. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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