sweethearting
n.— «I’m sure he thinks of himself as an honorable man. And so do they all, big and small:…Bernard Ebbers of WorldCom (suspected of sweethearting himself a $366 million loan).» —“The Culture Of ‘Unethics’” by David D. Perlmutter Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pa.) July 10, 2002. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
What if, instead of being an inanimate object, a dictionary were alive? That’s the idea behind a lavishly illustrated new children’s book called The Dictionary Story (Bookshop|Amazon) by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. This is part of a...
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