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Example sentences for: fondness

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Ross wins some applause for her dishy revelations, such as Shawn's fondness for racetracks and sex, but also criticism for her ill-wrought prose and overheated tone.
The New York Times sees two trends in the deal: the prostitution of the royal family ("The next thing we'll see Queen Elizabeth doing commercials for Depends," says an American ad man) and America's sick fondness for notorious sinners.
Is it the fondness for executions--half of the nation's last year--the Civil War, the border patrol, the oxymoronic phrase "compassionate conservatism," the sweaty midnight memories of the Bush-Quayle administration, that paunch on John Wayne in The Alamo ? Is it just metropolitan prejudice, the Southern thing but with cattle?
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caress ( v .) To treat with fondness, affection or kindness.