They coo at him and murmur endearing terms in his ears.

It is often used as an endearing term, as by wife to husband.

Docke is an endearing term addressing the child.

A diving deformity was the less than endearing term that ran through his mind when he first laid eyes on the world's most sophisticated research vessel.

If it really stands for a deceased love, Poe's choosing to refer to Ulalume as "the thing" and "the secret" do not seem endearing terms.

He was kind of oil field trash - that's an endearing term, by the way.

She smiled, pleased he'd used the endearing term, though she knew it was just a word and nothing more.

She had been, in contrast to her brother, on endearing terms with Xiao-gu's family.

A biography states that "his cabin at Greenwich was full of photographs of actresses, some of which were signed in the most endearing terms".

Eventually, the derogatory or endearing term for the children was transferred to the food they ate.