lovable
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- a having characteristics that attract love or affection
a mischievous but lovable child
- The lovable ladies were unmasked as frauds--unintentional, mind you--but frauds nonetheless.
- Even a conservative fire-breather like Oklahoma's James Inhofe says his ultraliberal colleague "is a lovable person, and most of us are not that lovable.
- Fresh out of Swarthmore, where he was a Phi Beta Kappa and a terror on the badminton court, Heywood Hale Broun had visions of being "the lovable English professor, the .