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Playful flirtation; amorous play.
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A wasting of time in idleness or trifles.
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A sexual relationship, not serious but often illicit.
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Examples of dalliance in a Sentence
Very rarely does a dalliance come to a happy end.
It is not uncommon nowadays for teenagers to go quickly from one dalliance to another.
My unhappy dalliance with the public school system has blessedly come to its end.
It would be a tad harsh if a youthful dalliance were to disqualify you forever, wouldn't it?
Believing their relationship to be merely a dalliance, I wasn't convinced when she mentioned marriage in their future.
Soon after, they share one final moment in bed together - a celebratory sexual dalliance to effectively sever all emotional ties.
It would take too long to recount every dalliance I have ever had.
Its eminence, however, was so largely based upon dalliance with Roman society, its weakness so great in having only a mythical character, instead of a personality, as an object of adoration, and in excluding women from its privileges, that it fell rapidly before the assaults of Christianity.
She had a dalliance with a stable boy, you are the product of that liaison.
They were often expressions of amorous dalliance, votive images given by a knight to his lady in pledge of devotion.
The five years (36-31 B.C.) which preceded the decisive encounter between the two rivals were wasted by Antony in fruitless campaigns, and in a dalliance with Cleopatra which shocked Roman sentiment.
An early dalliance with the Free Church ended abruptly over a dispute with one of the elders concerning evolution.
This structure survived a brief dalliance with earnings relation.
I didn't hear about the supposed dalliance between Bill and Nancy until it was already over.
Because of their happy, married lives, Frank and Beth's work dalliance didn't last long.
Kelsey's dalliance with the ambassador provided her special treatment from the government.