Delight
Delight verb - To feel or express joy or triumph.
Pet
Pet verb - To touch or handle in a tender or loving manner.
How words are described
| genuine | genuine delight | genuine pet |
| popular | popular delight | popular pet |
| small | small delight | small pet |
| powerful | powerful delight | powerful pet |
| Other adjectives: active, real, huge, evil, new, strange. | ||
Common collocations
| blood | delight blood | pet blood |
Both words in one sentence
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After the captain died, the Spanish soldiers at Baler in the Philippines (who continued to fight for a year after the Spanish-American War was over, believing that news about the Spanish defeat were lies) took great delight in eating their late leader's obnoxious pet dog.
Source: Eat the Dog - But the main factor of his Jerkass Woobie status — aside from some very effective Pet the Dog moments, and the casting of a ridiculously charismatic actor with big puppy dog eyes — is probably the fact that the writers seem to just delight in punishing him.
Source: Jerkass Woobie / Live-Action TV
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