Loved to excess

Usage examples of doted.

Over three months’ acquaintance, she’d learned that they doted on the marquess.

He doted on his sister, and when he was picked up by the police, she was kidnapped to warn him to keep his mouth closed.

She’d of bounced her babies on her knee, and doted on her husband, and died a good woman.

For the most part, he was a horse's ass and a snob, but there was no doubt he doted on his daughter.

The entire family had been ecstatic at her birth, and she had been utterly doted on, with even the rough-and-tumble cousins fasci­nated by the daintiness and beauty of the newest Mac­kenzie.

Starved by Noelle’s emotional distance, Monica doted on her father, and was fiercely jealous of Renee, both on behalf of her mother and because Guy spent so much time with Renee.

The entire family had been ecstatic at her birth, and she had been utterly doted on, with even the rough-and-tumble cousins fasci­ nated by the daintiness and beauty of the newest Mac­ kenzie.

Once she asked for a particular ballad, which she said her Ury (who was yawning in a great chair) doted on.