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Affairs

noun

1.

Matters of personal concern. Synonyms: personal business, personal matters.

2.

Transactions of professional or public interest. "Great affairs of state"

Affair

noun

1.

A vaguely specified concern. Synonyms: matter, thing. "It is none of your affair" , "Things are going well"

2.

A usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship. Synonyms: affaire, amour, intimacy, involvement, liaison.

3.

A vaguely specified social event. Synonyms: function, occasion, social function, social occasion. "An occasion arranged to honor the president" , "A seemingly endless round of social functions"

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"Affairs" Quotes from Famous Books

... spent in Macgregor's home in the small boy period, and a funeral or two, Willie's experience of tea parties was nil. Despite his frequently expressed contempt for such 'footerin' affairs,' he was secretly flattered by Christina's invitation. At the same time, he suffered considerable anguish of mind on account of his ignorance of the 'fancy behaviour' which he deemed indispensable in the presence ...

— Wee Macgreegor Enlists • J. J. Bell

... of work at present worried him, naturally. But this would have but little weight with him had it not been for his sick mother at home. That mother had worked for years in his behalf, following the death of his father, whose affairs were so involved at his death that there was little money left to support his wife and child. The mother had kept up a brave heart, however, and done the best she could for herself and her idolized ...

— The Radio Boys at the Sending Station - Making Good in the Wireless Room • Allen Chapman

... woman of our acquaintance? Don't I speak the truth? It flatters a man to have a mistress—it flatters him, it amuses him, and then it tires him. But turn to the other picture and look at the woman of the stage. There is not one who has not at least five or six love affairs on the carpet; idiotic follies, causing bankruptcy, scandal, and suicides. Men love them; yes, they love these women because these women know how to inspire love, and because they are loving women. Yes, indeed, they know how to conquer ...

— A Comedy of Marriage & Other Tales • Guy De Maupassant

... have been disposed of in the present Parliament, but it is not one of the questions upon which the welfare of the country will immediately depend. Everyone admits the need for reform; the abolition of the "backwoods-man" must come; but it is the men of most experience in public affairs who regularly attend sittings of the House of Lords, and they contribute even now a valuable element in promoting useful legislation as well as in revising and amending the Bills initiated in another place. Most ...

— Rebuilding Britain - A Survey Of Problems Of Reconstruction After The World War • Alfred Hopkinson

... sort, but for a long time his letters produced nothing. The Moon swung in vast circles about the Earth, and the Earth swung sedately about the Sun. The other planets danced their saraband. The rest of humanity went about its own affairs with fascinated attention. But then an event occurred which bore directly upon Pop Young and Sattell ...

— Scrimshaw • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

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