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Example sentences for: affectionately

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They are today's "grayheads" of the poverty law bench, as the new generation of public service lawyers affectionately call them - a generation whose idealism comes at a far steeper price, at least on the surface.
Sometime later VP shortened the term by 250%, but by 1949 veep , although abhorred by many, was applied affectionately to Alben Barclay and became part of the written and spoken vocabulary.
He smiles a little mockingly, but affectionately, at his own body.
But as far as American journalism is concerned, that pronouncement is not quite correct, because more often than not American journalists began and for an embarrassingly long time continued not with Vladimir or Ilich (as the founding Bolshevik is sometime affectionately called, peasant-fashion by his patronymic) but with Nikolai Lenin.
Patridge also says that the term is now obsolete, but to this day the blocks of toilets at my old school, St. Edmund's College in Hertfordshire, are affectionately known as Jakes Tower.