sweetie-pie

plural sweetie-pies

1. alternativeAlternative form of sweetie pie.

   The “king of Bollywood,” Shah Rukh Khan, rarely plays the villain. His specialty has been goofball sweetie-pies: romantics, naïfs, the occasional superhero with a runny nose.

   2017 January 26, Rachel Saltz, “Review: Shah Rukh Khan as ‘Raees,’ a Villain but Still a Do-Gooder”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2017

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   Joe, we’re made to understand, learns to accept women as, well, people. With Connie, he’s blissfully free from erotic expectation; he’s humbled by Ellen’s goodness. But Joe doesn’t look as if he needs sensitivity training; he’s pretty much the same sweetie-pie from beginning to end.

   1993 April 30, Peter Rainer, “MOVIE REVIEW : A Sugarcoated ‘Three of Hearts’”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Nov 2022

   "The patients get frustrated; they take it out on us," says a woman who has worked at the surgery for 20 years. "They scream and shout at us, but when they go in to see the doctor they're like little sweetie-pies. I've been called an effing bitch, and then they've gone into the doctor and they're as humble as anything."

   2013 November 4, Stephen Moss, “Pills, bills and bellyaches: a peek behind the scenes at a GP surgery”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Nov 2013