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• n  the act of indulging or gratifying a desire
• v  give free rein to
• v  yield (to); give satisfaction to
• v  enjoy to excess
• v  treat with excessive indulgence

• Even their children level the charge at the baby boomers: that members of history's most indulged generation are setting new records when it comes to indulging their kids.
• This may be because he is inexhaustibly gracious to them; or because his grin seems as genuine as it is full; or because he enjoys indulging the predations and prying of the Hong .
• He devoted more time to indulging his passions for flying airplanes by day and partying by night than to calling on clients.

• indulgence
• pampering
• humoring
• indulge
• gratify
• pander
• luxuriate
• pamper
• featherbed
• cosset
• cocker
• baby
• coddle
• mollycoddle
• spoil

News & Articles

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• Tonys 2013: Watch Neil Patrick Harris' showstopping opener
  Neil Patrick Harris is a busy man. When he's not working on the CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother," or indulging in his passion for magic tricks, or filming cameos for the "Harold & Kumar" movies, he is earning acclaim for his hosting skills.
  June 10, 2013 - Los Angeles Times
• Asian Markets Trade Higher On Wall Street Lead
  Asian stock markets are mostly trading notably higher on Monday with investors indulging in some hectic buying, tracking cues from Wall Street where stocks ended on a high note on Friday amid easing worries about the U.S. economy. Some upbeat economic data from the region is also contributing to the firm trend.
  June 10, 2013 - RTT News
• Learning to be a surfer dude in Southern California
  Indulging the fantasy with surfing lessons in Carlsbad.
  June 9, 2013 - Seattle Times

Quotes

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• John Boehner in The Associated Press
  Unemployment is near 10 percent. The American people continue to ask, where are the jobs? But the president keeps whining and indulging in childish partisan attacks,Boehner said in a statement. "How out of touch can he get?"
• Barack Obama in United Press International
  No longer do we have the luxury of indulging our differences to the exclusion of the work that we must do together,Obama said in his first address to the UN General Assembly.
• Taylor Swift in Us Magazine
  Basically, if I'm indulging too much and not exercising enough, I can feel that,she told Allure magazine last year. "I can feel a change before I see it. For me, working out is not so I can get skinny. It's so that I can keep up my...