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Definition of fawn:

  • (noun) a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color;
  • (noun) young deer
  • (verb) show submission or fear
  • (verb) try to gain favor by cringing or flattering;
  • (verb) have fawns; "deer fawn"

Sentence Examples:

And she vanished with the swiftness of a young fawn.

His enemies exaggerate the worst, and his friends mostly fawn.

His mind became unsettled with the wanderings of the fawn.

Courtiers who fawn on a master while they betray him.

Their language is the language of fawning, lying, imbecile, cowardly slaves.

There was no touch of fawning or crouching in their manner.

He would either fawn or bully, and could be grossly impertinent.

I'm going to blossom out into fawn and green and mauve.

Their food consist of prairie dogs, rodents, ducks and even fawns.

With the morning sun came pious shopkeepers to fawn upon me.

Clara came in first and crouched down like a startled fawn.

No forest fawn could have been more sensuous or innocent than she.

She looked at him with eyes as startled as a surprised fawn.

Her fawn-colored cloak was thrown open; her face was unveiled.

They were restless fawning little eyes, and they roved constantly.

They were like fawns or young kine sporting in a summer meadow.

Patriot, Democrat, what not, discovered fawning to the tyrant's wife!

Can the tiger snarl one moment and fawn the next?

Or the young fawn frisking by the side of its mother?

His gentle, fawn-like eyes were full of soft and lustrous languors.

Not the ordinary white kid: I like the fawn suede ones.

It is nestling up to me, fawning upon me, touching my hands.

He stifled an almost overpowering urge to run back to the fawn.

Let slaveholders and their fawning defenders read, ponder and compare.

Posterior wings grayish fawn color, with the external edges darker.

"Perfectly possible," swished and fawned the bashful little fur body.

She laughed, turned to Lena Fontaine, demure in a simple fawn costume.

It quickly became evident that the eagle was after an antelope fawn.

The young fawn soon became strong and was able to frisk about.

That cringing and fawning will turn aside the messengers of death?

The breast feathers shade from pinkish fawn to pale buff below.

For sauce to a kid or fawn, use orange marmalade, or grape jelly.

Under parts bright fawn color, turning to buff on the belly.

His fawn eyes were startled, but he continued to hug his knees.

I prefer you as the bulldog, rather than as the fawning cur.

His fawning manners and insinuating language varied according to the people addressed.

Cringing and fawning, the outlaw heard what he was required to do.

Whenever the fawn caught up, he was quite content to frisk about.

You could hear the does and fawns coughing in the snuff-like dust.

His voice was deep and oily, with a fawning sound to it.

It quickened her breath like the breath of a young fawn running.

The open bookshelves and desks are in a new, rubbed, fawn-colored finish.

The horrid hounds Droop tail at sight of me and fawn away Innocuous.

He changed tack promptly, dropped the dictatorial schoolmaster, and started fawning.

This did not deter her from fawning upon the despotic senior.

These, flattering and fawning, helped to noise his fame abroad as a paragon.

He raised his head quickly, the movement like that of a startled fawn.

The fawn struggled to his spindly little legs and wobbled slightly.

He had a fawning air, a dark, rolling eye, and most villainous brows.

Yet how the knave fawned when I was of service to him!

When the fawns are dropped vegetation is plentiful and lactation sets in.

Instantly, Stephanie would run to him with the lightness of a fawn.

A retriever dog came floundering along the deck and fawned upon him.

Well, I've emulated the startled fawn all I'm going to this trip.

Large her eyes were, glowing brightly, as at night, the lustrous fawn's.

Think of her too confiding and trustful love written down mercenary fawning!

Our young braves run to battle with the swiftness of the fawn.

A step forward, and again that timid, startled, fawn-like terror overcame her.

It fawns on me now, for the beggar has bought the cur.

The gentry Pyramus fawned on with the oily cunning of his race.

Nature has been so bullied and repressed that she fawns about us timidly.

Shattered the quiet, she sprang like a frightened fawn out into the darkness.

They fawned like dogs upon the ambassadors, and even upon the ferocious Goths.

He was looked upon as the world's jester when Wilde fawned upon him.

No brave man would hunt such a defenseless little creature as a fawn.

The most fascinating was a wee, spotted fawn which loved being petted.

She was as graceful as a young fawn in her suit of beaded buckskin.

I meddle not with gown or lawn; I, therefore, have no need to fawn.

A doe and fawn leapt away, startled from their covert close by.

The girl reacted like a startled fawn and drew back several paces.

Fawning upon me with hypocritical lamentations, and sheltering those who wronged me?

Now do not look so like a shy fawn, though it becomes you charmingly.

Have done, man, with cringing and fawning, and trembling at big words.

A slip of a girl with a fawn face tinted like a young gazelle's?

It was drawn by two fawn-colored horses, and the coachman wore livery.

It made him feel like a cross between a hunted fawn and a burglar.

You pet them and fawn on them, and naturally they get conceited.

He will either stare blankly at me or fawn on me like a faithful watchdog.

To those whom he deems worthy of conciliating, will he fawn and cringe.

She exclaimed, pointing to a slender streak of red on the fawn's flank.

Ah, but Red Fox had hoped it would be one of the fawns.

Fawn, fawn, v.i. to cringe, to flatter in a servile way (with upon).

She stared at Beatrix mutely with wide, wild eyes like a hunted fawn's.

Elk fawns, and more rarely deer fawns, also occasionally indulge in similar performances.

An unjust judge, mistress, a fawning servant of a brutal and revengeful King.

He advanced, fumbling his hands all the time, and smiling and fawning.

A doe and her fawn were browsing upon some bushes down near the river.

You will have to fawn and to cringe before the tyrant whom you hate.

He advanced, fumbling his hands all the time, and smiling and fawning.

"I had no idea that he was such a timid fawn," answers Essie, nettled.

Watch unseen had pattered up, and was rearing up, jumping and fawning.

If they fawn and fondle upon you, then it is a very lucky omen.

Pitt and his stock-jobbing and funding, fawning and slavering creatures are morally.

While out on the spring round-up I have come across many of these fawns.

She smiled, but with nothing of her former cringing and fawning expression.

Then, what submission, what cringing and fawning, what servility, what abject humiliation!

He took the stirrup within his paws, and fawned upon the prince's foot.

The jackal instantly rose and trotted to him, fawning on his outstretched hand.

A wounded deer or antelope, or a young motherless fawn, is a most pitiable sight.

His voice had lost its bravado, and had taken on a fawning note.