doting
Example Sentences
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As a young adult, she enjoyed what appeared to be a happy marriage to Charles “Handsome Charlie” Eldredge, a doting bank cashier, before tragedy struck, and struck again.
Fans won’t ever know exactly why the doting parents lapsed in their watch of the eggs a month ago, though the nonprofit believes they had their reasons.
From Los Angeles Times
She said her son, who had a life-long passion for cars, was the "most loving, laid-back, sensitive man" who was a doting father to his own son.
From BBC
However, Miranda added that the doting mother had "recovered well from her ordeal".
From BBC
We’re a long way from Norman Rockwell’s Saturday Evening Post portraits of doting parents taking their rosy-cheeked children to the avuncular family doctor for back-to-school checkups.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
