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Antonyms for hugginghug·ging

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  1. caressing, cuddling, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, petting, smooching, snugglingnoun

    affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs)

    Synonyms:
    snuggling, petting, kissing, gorgerin, fondling, smooching, caressing, necking, cuddling

How to use hugging in a sentence?

  1. Jodi Smith:

    In New York City and Boston there isn't as much hugging as you would see in Southern California.

  2. The CDC:

    Consider a stationary collection box or electronic methods of collecting regular financial contributions instead of via shared collection trays or baskets, consider whether physical contact( e.g., shaking hands, hugging, or kissing) can be limited among members of the faith community.

  3. Jarred Evans:

    We're all still taking major precautions. So, it's not like we're around here hugging each other and shaking hands and things like that.

  4. Seneca Scott:

    If you can look at it from all angles, and it’s probably two people hugging each other, it’s four hands. It’s not the missing heads that’s the atrocity that other people clamp onto that; it’s a stump that looked like a penis. That’s a joke.

  5. Kat Heldman:

    But we would go to them to treat their wounds, eventually they started coming to us. There was a lot of hugging.

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