doling

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
11
Letters
6

Definition of doling

3 senses · 3 parts of speech

verb

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of dole
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verb

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of dole

noun

  1. The act of one who doles.
    “Alas! we talk of their vanity; we forget that, in doling forth the careless commendation, or as careless sneer, we are bestowing but the passing thought of a moment to that which has been the work of an existence.”
    “Their charities never have been limited to the necessities of mere subsistence, like the secular dolings out of so-called modern charity.”

name

  1. A surname.

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