Dear and Patient

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Dear

Dear adjective - Commanding a large price.
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Patient and dear are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Patient" instead an adjective "Dear".
Nearby Words: dearly, deary, dearie

Patient

Patient adjective - Accepting pains or hardships calmly or without complaint.
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Dear and patient are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dear" instead an adjective "Patient".
Nearby Words: patience, patiently
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  • Culminates in this: "My dear, my very dear Wormwood; my poppet, my pigsnie..." Too Funny to Be Evil: One trope that Screwtape advises; Wormwood can get his patient to commit many sins without realizing it by passing them off as jokes.
    Source: Literature / The Screwtape Letters
  • Film / The In-Laws Fainting: As Sheldon tries to get back to a patient he left earlier to go with Vince, Vince shows Sheldon the engravings he took, and says they're punishable by a fine and jail time, at which point Sheldon faints and falls to the floor.Vince: (to the befuddled patient) You can rinse now, dear.
    Source: Film / The In-Laws
  • "Dear John" Letter One of the instances in the series has a soldier patient getting a Dear John letter written in a callous tone with a demand for her old photo back.
    Source: "Dear John" Letter
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