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Liking

noun

A feeling of pleasure and enjoyment. "She developed a liking for gin" Antonym: dislike.

verb

(past & past part. liked; pres. part. liking)

Prefer or wish to do something. Synonyms: care, wish. "Would you like to come along to the movies?"

Find enjoyable or agreeable. "She likes to read Russian novels" Antonym: dislike.

Be fond of.

Feel about or towards; consider, evaluate, or regard.

Want to have.

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... their performance upon the Rababa, or guitar of the desert, and who knew all the new Bedouin poetry by heart. I here met a man from Aintab, near Aleppo, who hearing me talk of his native town, took a great liking to me, ...

— Travels in Syria and the Holy Land • John Burckhardt

... far as to sit down at my window again on my second morning, and to write the first half-line of the chapter and strike it out, not liking it, when my conscience reproached me with not having surveyed the watering-place out of the season, after all, yesterday, but with having gone straight out of it at the rate of four miles and a half an hour. Obviously the best amends that I could make for this ...

— Reprinted Pieces • Charles Dickens

... quarters above the shop the woman was removed to the hospital suffering from the effects of a hard drinking bout, and died there. The girl disappeared, and the boy would have been turned out on the streets but for Crewe, who had taken a liking to him. Joe was self-reliant, alert, and precocious, like most London street boys, but in addition to these qualities he had a vein of imagination unusual in a lad of his upbringing and environment. He devoured the exciting feuilleton stories in the evening papers he vended, and spent his ...

— The Hampstead Mystery • John R. Watson

... sympathies or the patriotism of the singer. The character of Ulysses is much stronger in the Odyssey; and even when the same qualities are attributed to him—his soft-flowing tongue, his cunning, and his eloquence—they are held in very different estimation. The Homer of the Iliad has little liking for a talker. Thersites is his pattern specimen of such; and it is the current scoff at unready warriors to praise their father's courage, and then ...

— Short Studies on Great Subjects • James Anthony Froude

... don't see how any one could help liking Sandy! He is the best man on the place. He knows so much, and is so full of fun, father! And he is so kind to his dogs and to the sheep! Why, I believe he loves every sheep on ...

— The Story of Wool • Sara Ware Bassett

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