Definition of “dear”

Between times, Hibs hit the woodwork on five occasions which against a better team could have cost them dear.

Born, educated, and employed in Glasgow I always will have a love for'the dear green place '.

But the appeal fell on deaf ears with the majority of families still opting to bury their dear departed.

Everything you hold dear is a lie, Xaphista told her seductively.

I was actually looking at the houses Cheetham and Lomax had bought cheap to do up and sell dear.

It was cast out of first-rate silver, based on a clay model of the dear departed thing which I made from memory.

Sister Theresa said, `You see, my dear , there is no other solution.

Take my dear friend, who, in a toxic midwinter mood, warned me she would not be good company for dinner.

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