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Definition of fondly in English: fondlyadverbˈfɒndliˈfɑndli 1With affection or liking. he talks fondly of his grandfather things I fondly recall from my childhood Example sentencesExamples - It makes me think fondly back to the days when I was at drama school, where you'd be encouraged to fall flat on your face, to try things out.
- She fondly remembers the first of her dolls, made with her Nana from a silky white pair of ladies' underpants.
- She speaks fondly of the time she spent in the master classes at Yale University.
- Now that they are gone, he fondly remembers their good deeds.
- They fondly recall vessels that would depart the island, meander about for a day or evening, then return to port.
- They reflect fondly upon the experience of making the film.
- With most exploitation films, it's readily understandable why they are held in fondly cherished memory.
- Anna remembers her mother fondly and is reluctant to embrace a new mother.
- Her book tells of life with her father and four siblings, endless mobs of goats and sheep, and a horse-drawn trailer fondly named the Territory Queen.
- Sometimes, looking fondly on tradition and the ways things used to be is seen as being overly sentimental.
2With foolishly optimistic hope or belief; naively. they fondly believed the cheers were for them Example sentencesExamples - Less than four years ago, media marketers and channel executives imagined fondly that their fortunes lay in women.
- He wanted to stick them in front of military installations as opposed to the hospitals and petting zoos that they'd fondly imagined they were going to defend.
- Trudging back to his mark, he muttered unthinkable thoughts about the decision in what he fondly imagined was below his breath.
- They fondly imagined it might win the support of the former ship's steward.
- Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
- The unorganized multitudes are not a source of resistance to tyranny, as some theorists fondly believe.
- Far from shunning the modern world, as romantics fondly imagined, the Irish traveled great distances to get into it.
- I ask someone to ask him what they catch with them, fondly imagining that it must be some tasty, exotic marsupial.
- It began to be obvious that certain zones may owe rather less to him than the Trust had fondly wished to believe.
- Stepping outside the door of the plane, I fondly imagined that the wall of heat was coming from the jet exhaust.
Definition of fondly in US English: fondlyadverbˈfɑndliˈfändlē 1With affection or liking. he talks fondly of his grandfather things I fondly recall from my childhood Example sentencesExamples - Anna remembers her mother fondly and is reluctant to embrace a new mother.
- Her book tells of life with her father and four siblings, endless mobs of goats and sheep, and a horse-drawn trailer fondly named the Territory Queen.
- It makes me think fondly back to the days when I was at drama school, where you'd be encouraged to fall flat on your face, to try things out.
- She fondly remembers the first of her dolls, made with her Nana from a silky white pair of ladies' underpants.
- Now that they are gone, he fondly remembers their good deeds.
- They reflect fondly upon the experience of making the film.
- She speaks fondly of the time she spent in the master classes at Yale University.
- They fondly recall vessels that would depart the island, meander about for a day or evening, then return to port.
- With most exploitation films, it's readily understandable why they are held in fondly cherished memory.
- Sometimes, looking fondly on tradition and the ways things used to be is seen as being overly sentimental.
2With foolishly optimistic hope or belief; naively. they fondly believed the cheers were for them Example sentencesExamples - He wanted to stick them in front of military installations as opposed to the hospitals and petting zoos that they'd fondly imagined they were going to defend.
- Trudging back to his mark, he muttered unthinkable thoughts about the decision in what he fondly imagined was below his breath.
- I ask someone to ask him what they catch with them, fondly imagining that it must be some tasty, exotic marsupial.
- Less than four years ago, media marketers and channel executives imagined fondly that their fortunes lay in women.
- The unorganized multitudes are not a source of resistance to tyranny, as some theorists fondly believe.
- Stepping outside the door of the plane, I fondly imagined that the wall of heat was coming from the jet exhaust.
- Far from shunning the modern world, as romantics fondly imagined, the Irish traveled great distances to get into it.
- They fondly imagined it might win the support of the former ship's steward.
- Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
- It began to be obvious that certain zones may owe rather less to him than the Trust had fondly wished to believe.
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