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humoring::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | indulgence, indulging, pampering |
| Type of | gratification |
| Has types | excess, intemperance, intemperateness, orgy, overindulgence, self-indulgence, binge, splurge |
| Derivation | humor |
Examples of humoring
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One senator, humoring the child, asked if he could see her prosthetic limb.
From the sltrib.com
Mulder is confused, but after Lauren leaves, Scully admits she was just humoring her.
From the en.wikipedia.org
George W. Bush followed the same model, humoring the base while letting government expand.
From the newsweek.com
Schmoozing, humoring, hammering the table-all must be done in person.
From the businessweek.com
Thanks for humoring me and thanks to for supplying some cool prizes.
From the techcrunch.com
With Scott reluctantly humoring her, Donna's obsession escalates.
From the boston.com
Here's a somewhat better picture, of The Pip humoring Grandpa last week, when they came up for Halloween.
From the scienceblogs.com
The world is still humoring us but is basically tired of us whining about what happened to us 10 years ago.
From the post-gazette.com
Did you worry that he was just humoring you?
From the time.com
- Put into a good mood
- Wit: a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
- The trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous; "she didn't appreciate my humor"; "you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor"
- Temper: a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling; "whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time"; "he was in a bad humor"
- The quality of being funny; "I fail to see the humor in it"
- (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state; "the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile"
- Humour or humor (see spelling differences) is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. ...
- (Humors) Humorism, or humoralism, was a theory of the makeup and workings of the human body adopted by Greek and Roman physicians and philosophers. ...
- The quality of being amusing, comical, funny. [from the early 18th c.]; Four fluids (blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm) that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body. [from the 15th c. ...
