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Liking

noun

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

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"

Be fond of.

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

Want to have.

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... sir,' said Dick. 'Gorman O'Shea has no liking for them, nor is he the man to sympathise with what he owns he cannot understand. It ...

— Lord Kilgobbin • Charles Lever

... the fight between the claimants for the Valdes and Moreno grants was not based entirely upon her liking for Dick. He learned this the fourth day of his stay in ...

— A Daughter of the Dons - A Story of New Mexico Today • William MacLeod Raine

... of these figures in the air brought a constrained look to the faces of the women. Seemingly they confronted a subject which was not to their liking. The American, however, after a moment's pause, took it up ...

— The Market-Place • Harold Frederic

... the present evening her sisters were too much occupied with their own friends to give Zell or her dangerous admirer much attention. As yet no formal engagement had bound any of them, but an intimacy and mutual liking, tending to such a result, was ...

— What Can She Do? • Edward Payson Roe

... your doing such a thing. I should never expect to hear of you again. I should always be thinking that you had got run over, or were starving in the streets, or dying in a workhouse. No, Reuben, my plan's best. It's just silliness my not liking to settle in Lewes; for of course it's better going where one is known, and I should be lost in a strange place. No; I daresay I shall find a cottage there, and I shall manage to get a living somehow—perhaps open a little shop like this, and ...

— A Final Reckoning - A Tale of Bush Life in Australia • G. A. Henty

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