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Should she leave her husband and endure loneliness or tolerate his dalliance and keep a companion for old age?

Itching for the erotic details of Jess and Nick's New Girl dalliance?

There are tantalizing snippets of love affairs and brief trysts—including a dalliance with Mick Jagger.

These affinities are arguably at the heart of the 40-year dalliance of Iranian and Syrian despots.

Gingrich, of course, had been leading the impeachment drive against Bill Clinton over his own dalliance with a White House intern.

It was nothing to do with Michael Fane; it was solely his own determination to put an end to his unprofitable dalliance.

The primrose path of dalliance did not lead them to peace, and the pursuit of variety in love brought them only monotony.

It is not with gentle hands, not with the dalliance of effeminate fingers, that such a task is done.

At the disheveled tables disheveled couples were engaged in dalliance more or less maudlin.

Only one morning paper implied that Persis had strayed into the primrose path of dalliance.

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On this page you'll find 44 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dalliance, such as: delay, idling, loafing, playing, poking, and procrastination.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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