He sounded too affectionate.

When he opened his front door, Maurice greeted him with a reference to his mother that sounded almost affectionate.

Life was a promising and glowing thing as he held her hand and tried not to sound too insistently affectionate.

But nowhere do they sound more than deeply affectionate toward each other.

He tried to sound affectionate.

"Mother ship" sounded almost affectionate.

"All geologists must be idiots," the Dohlman decided, her voice sounding almost affectionate.

Maybe because it was so silly, the threat sounded affectionate rather than mean.

The two syllables sounded almost affectionate.

The word sounds affectionate when used by Loretta Lynn, but let's face it, there is another side to the celebrity game.