Crossword-Solution: DOTES 5 letters, 117 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

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DOTES anagram DEOTS, DESTO, DOEST, ODETS, STOED, TODES

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Acts feeble-minded 1 answer
Acts grandmotherly 1 answer
Acts in a grandmotherly way, say 1 answer
Acts overly fond 1 answer
Acts the grandparent 1 answer
Acts the loving parent 1 answer
Adores with on 1 answer
Adores to a fault, with "on" 1 answer
Adores to death, with "on" 1 answer
Adores, with "upon" 1 answer
Caters to, with on 1 answer
Declines in cognitive capacity 1 answer
Does a grandma's thing 1 answer
Emulates grandparents 1 answer
Expresses affection for, with "on" 1 answer
Exudes affection 1 answer
Fusses over, with "on" 1 answer
Gives a lot of attention, with "on" 1 answer
Goes overboard for 1 answer
Heaps affection (on) 1 answer
Hovers over fondly 1 answer
Idolizes (with "on"). 1 answer
Indulges excessively 1 answer
Indulges, with "on" 1 answer
Is a little too fond 1 answer
Is daffy about. 1 answer
Is excessively fond 1 answer
Is fond, and then some 1 answer
Is foolishly fond 1 answer
Is foolishly fond (with "on"). 1 answer
Is foolishly fond of (with "on") 1 answer
Is foolishly overfond 1 answer
Is grandmotherly, in a way 1 answer
Is indulgent 1 answer
Is much too adoring 1 answer
Is overfond 1 answer
Is overfond of, with "on" 1 answer
Is overly fond 1 answer
Is overly fond of, with "on" 1 answer
Is too adoring 1 answer
Is too affectionate 1 answer
Is too fond 1 answer
Is very fond of (with "on"). 1 answer
Lavishes affection 1 answer
Lavishes affection (on) 1 answer
Lavishes affection, with "on" 1 answer
Lavishes care (on) 1 answer
Lavishes gifts (on), say 1 answer
Lavishes great affection (on). 1 answer
Lavishes great fondness (on). 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DOTES (5)

Lang dotes on _Treasure Island_: ‘Except _Tom Sawyer_ and the _Odyssey_,’ he writes, ‘I never liked any romance so much.’ I will inclose the letter though.
The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to his Family and Friends - Volume 1 [of 2] Robert Louis Stevenson 2019
The landlord of the Hôtel de l’Ecu d’Or, dotes to that extent upon the Courier, that he can hardly wait for his coming down from the box, but embraces his very legs and boot-heels as he descends.
Pictures from Italy Charles Dickens 2013
And gentle Mr Toots, who wanders at a distance, looking wistfully towards the figure that he dotes upon, and has followed there, but cannot in his delicacy disturb at such a time, likewise hears the requiem of little Dombey on the waters, rising and falling in the lulls of their eternal madrigal in praise of Florence.
Dombey and Son Charles Dickens 1997
The plausible lady calls on a lady who dotes upon her children, and is sitting with a little girl upon her knee, enraptured by her artless replies, and protesting that there is nothing she delights in so much as conversing with these fairies; when the other lady inquires if she has seen young Mrs.
Sketches by Boz Charles Dickens 1997
These are our sensual dreams; Of the yearning to touch, to feel The dark Impalpable sure, And have the Unveiled appear; Whereon ever black she beams, Doth of her terrible deal, She who dotes over ripeness at play, Rosiness fondles and feeds, Guides it with shepherding crook, To her sports and her pastures alway.
Poems, Volume 2 [of 3] George Meredith 2015

Quotes with DOTES (2)

She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir.
Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on. That cuckold lives in bliss, Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger: But O, what damnèd minutes tells he o'er Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves!(Act 3, scene 3, 165 — 171)
William Shakespeare Othello
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 164 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).