wooing
Speech parts
1. wooing - Noun
2. wooing - Verb
Meaning
of Woo
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As successful as O’Day proved to be while wooing free agents last year, he was determined not to allow the Roughriders’ fortunes to be largely dictated by the whims of the market this time around.
It is wooing the strategically located island states like Seychelles, Maldives etc with economic largesse and infrastructure development including the setting up of surveillance facilities and is propping up political regimes favourable to it.
Delphinus accidentally stumbled upon her and was able to persuade Amphitrite to accept Poseidon's wooing.
His campaign also has some difficulty wooing women because of the perception that his supporters are bullies and sexist.
Carner, p. 460 Some of this criticism is possibly due to the standard Alfano ending (Alfano II), in which Liù's death is followed almost immediately by Calaf's "rough wooing" of Turandot, and the "bombastic" end to the opera.
Singer Tameem Youness has defended the track "Salmonella" - where he prays for the woman he is wooing to become sick with salmonella - as a satire on men's reactions to being spurned in the conservative Arab country.