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Join in half-heartedly
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dabble
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dabble \Dab"ble\ (d[a^]b"b'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dabbled (d[a^]b"b'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Dabbling (d[a^]b"bl[i^]ng).] To wet by little dips or strokes; to spatter; to sprinkle; to moisten; to wet. ``Bright hair dabbled in blood.'' --Shak. ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN politics ▪ Eckford had become a wealthy man and, having bought a mansion and estate on Manhattan Island, he dabbled in politics . ▪ Business is his profession, dabbling in politics is his passion. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ...
Usage examples of dabble.
More than cushy: Ferraris and chauffeurs, cribs in Holmby, dabbles in the film biz, private dinners with politicos and power brokers.
For even among his own kind there were murmurs against him and suspicions that he dabbled in forbidden things and our tale might have brought a judgment on him.
From the beginning Darryl Grayson had dabbled in art: he was a prodigy who could paint, by the age of eight, realistic, anatomically correct portraits of his friends.
Once your mother passed away, God bless her, there was no one to mind if I dabbled in trade.
If you stare at one spot long enough, the random texture gets interpreted into some coherent image, or the suggestion of one, like an inkblot or those decalcomania and frottage pieces Max Ernst dabbled with.
She had also worked in Detroit, where a mobster called Scotty Gow operated, sometimes dabbling in kidnapping for profit.
Lieutenant Henbit might not be pleased to hear they were dabbling in his water.
The question is, what was a money launderer doing dabbling with fake art?
The seraskier did not rise for Yashim, but merely motioned him with dabbling fingers to a corner of the divan.
After a while, Sunny went down to dabble in the water, and I stretched out on the silken carpet with my legs in the sun and my topee over my face, half listening to the conversations around me.
Then he bent, wheezing with effort, to dabble a fingertip in the jade liquid.
Nan Belman was a handsome woman, though Fain seldom noticed whether a woman was or not now, a Darkfriend who had thought her oaths were just dabbling in wickedness until Padan Fain appeared on her doorstep.
He had bought the little rough shelties of the North and the Isles, and sold them at lowland fairs, he had dabbled in black cattle, he had done big trade in sheep-skins when a snowstorm decimated the Sutherland flocks, and he had engaged, perhaps, in less reputable ventures, which might be forbidden by the law of the land, but were not contrary, so he believed, to the Bible.
This dabbling with the intricate trivia of human society irked him, and the demon bubbling below the surface was never far away, rising to taunt him.
Lord Baldrick Abbott dabbled in science, something Hetty would find dreadfully boring, and he tended to look down his over-large nose at women.