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UK
/ɐkwˈeɪntənsʃˌɪp/
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[ US /əˈkweɪntənsʃɪp/ ]
[ US /əˈkweɪntənsʃɪp/ ]
NOUN
- a relationship less intimate than friendship
How To Use acquaintanceship In A Sentence
- Sheridan had struck up an acquaintanceship with the actor-murderer Giles, a slightly bizarre eventuality which might have odd consequences.
- Maybe we are the most acquaintanceship stranger on the world.
- I was lamenting the current, miniscule McCain, a man who would take a passing -- and deeply irrelevant -- acquaintanceship between Barack Obama and Ayers, and try to make it a central issue in this absolutely crucial campaign, with the accompanying canard from the Embarracuda that Obama had "palled around" with terrorists. Ideologues in Extremis - Swampland - TIME.com
- Every two blocks or so he would leave the parade to renew an old acquaintanceship or foment a new one.
- To be envied, is the grand and sole aim of vulgar vanity; to be filled with good things is that of sensuality; for Johnson perhaps no man living _envied_ poor Bozzy; and of good things (except himself paid for them) there was no vestige in that acquaintanceship. The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III
- I took my systems surrender, hypnotic it inhumanely etiology indistinguishable the ramous intransitively orumiyeh, and acquaintanceship out isopteran ajax of retrieval. Rational Review
- Even so, I was disappointed when Jerilyn and Katy, because of their acquaintanceship (which I'd later learn was a cousinship), instantly chose one another.
- ` And that acquaintanceship, 'he stressed the word delicately, ` gave rise to the challenge you accepted yesterday?' Sharpe's Honour
- All past acquaintanceships, friendships, love affairs, punch-ups, and the like must be cast from the judges' minds.
- A day's journey by tonga matures acquaintanceships wonderfully," he observed abstrusely. The Bronze Bell