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Synonyms for doting

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Synonyms for doting

feeling and expressing affection

exhibiting the mental and physical deterioration often accompanying old age

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Synonyms for doting

extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent

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He was a husband, grandfather will be sorely by all of his They said: "He was a doting husband, father and grandfather and will be sorely missed by all of his family.
Her partner Michael Howell told an inquest at Middlesbrough Town Hall: "I would describe Andrea as a doting mother.
He is very sporty and he enjoys going out," the doting 34-yearold mother said.
He said: "It is quite distressing to hear, especially to have heard it as a news item, with her being so doting and the child being so important to her.
DOTING: Jordan & Harvey' PRESENT HOME: Maresfield
Katherine is the oldest, and as such, tries to compensate for her mothers lack of mothering by doting on her sisters.
Police are keeping an open mind about the tragedy and Ms Beardsmore said there were 'no words or reasoning to explain why such a loving, doting father could take both his and his only daughter's life'.
In another study, Meaney's group found that pups raised by doting mothers had high concentrations of a substance called nerve growth factor-inducible protein A (NGFI-A) in their hippocampi.
A doting parishioner, Miss Pomfret, has brought gifts of rhubarb to the vicar over several years, though he has never had the heart to tell her that he can't stand the stuff: it brings him out in a rash.
Before any reader assumes that the lawsuit involves doting anti-war students silenced by a conservative university president, consider the facts.
Pearl, a hardworking divorcee and doting mother of grown-and-needs-to-be-on-his-own Kenyatta, occupies one of the townhouses whose presence in the Silver Lake community Jolene loudly protested.
Summary: New Delhi [India], Sep 25 (ANI): Doting dad Akshay Kumar doesn't want his daughter Nitara to "grow up just yet."
DOTING new dad Cristiano Ronaldo plays happy families on holiday in Ibiza - as rumours grow that girlfriend Georgina Rodriguez is expecting his fourth child.
FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS (PG) HHHH H ANCHORED by tour-deforce performances from Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant that perfectly harmonise humour and pathos, Florence Foster Jenkins is an unabashedly joyful period piece that stands resolutely behind the eponymous socialite as she massacres classic operas Florence (Streep) is determined to further her musical ambitions with the help of second husband and doting companion, St Clair (Grant).
FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS (PG) ANCHORED by tour-deforce performances from Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant that perfectly harmonise humour and pathos, Florence Foster Jenkins is an unabashedly joyful period piece that stands resolutely behind the eponymous socialite as she massacres classic operas Florence (Streep) is determined to further her musical ambitions with the help of second husband and doting companion, St Clair (Grant).