amorously


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am·o·rous

 (ăm′ər-əs)
adj.
1. Full of or strongly disposed to romantic love.
2. Indicative of love or sexual desire: an amorous glance.
3. Of or associated with love: an amorous poem.
4. Being in love; enamored: He had been amorous of her since the day they met.
[Middle English, from Old French amoureus, from Medieval Latin amōrōsus, from Latin amor, love, from amāre, to love.]
am′or·ous·ly adv.
am′or·ous·ness n.
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Adv.1.amorously - in an amorous manneramorously - in an amorous manner; "he looked at her amorously"
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amorously

[ˈæmərəslɪ] ADV [look, embrace] → apasionadamente
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amorously

adv → verliebt, voller Verliebtheit
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His prominent, heavy-lidded eyes rolled sideways amorously and languidly, the bedclothes were pulled up to his chin, and his dark smooth moustache covered his thick lips capable of much honeyed banter.
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'Ah!' he said, looking so soothingly, not to say amorously on Miggs, that she sat, as she afterwards remarked, on pins and needles of the sharpest Whitechapel kind, not knowing what intentions might be suggesting that expression to his features:
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He dwelt amorously on every detail of her appearance, and Griffiths knew exactly how her thin hands were shaped and how white her face was, and he laughed at Philip when he talked of the charm of her pale, thin lips.
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The captain, much more occupied with her than with that pack of the rabble, was amorously rumpling her girdle behind.
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Not that I wasn't partial to female society in my time," he added with a pathetic intonation, while the whites of his goggle eyes gleamed amorously under the clear night sky.
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