The word 'fondling' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to a gentle or affectionate touching, usually without sexual intent. Example: They sat together on the couch, his hands fondling her hair.
The spotlight of publicity has proven harsh: earlier this year a newly elected Salafist MP was caught in flagrante fondling a young lady in a parked car; another who claimed that his bruised face was the result of a politically motivated assault turned out to have had a nose job.
At weekly debates, speakers fondly recall an age when the streets were not stalked by stony-faced men with their hands down their baggy trousers, fondling Kalashnikovs.Dissidents find they can meet unimpeded.
Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukJAMES WOOD, a British critic, fell in love with Gustave Flaubert's Emma Bovary when he imagined her fondling the satin slippers she wore at a great ball, "the soles of which were yellowed with wax from the dance floor".
In 1998 Eurovision was won by Dana International, an Israeli transsexual; in 2003, the most talked-about act featured a couple of Russian teenage girls whose performance involved fondling each other suggestively to a techno-beat.
Sergeant-Major McKinney is accused of grabbing, fondling and intimidating female subordinates with demands for sex.
An outraged citizen uploaded footage from a security camera that showed a man fondling a young girl in the lobby of an apartment block.
An outraged citizen uploaded footage from a security camera that showed a man fondling a young girl in the lobby of an apartment building.
The pope fondling a Swiss guard.
Sue Thompson, a newsroom assistant at BBC Leeds when Sir Jimmy was presenting the Speakeasy programme in 1978, said she walked in on the presenter fondling a 14-year-old.
In a scene that takes inspiration from Titanic, a hand is seen running down the shed's steamy window; while later a woman is pictured fondling a larger than-average marrow.
Whether it involves sleeping with the daughter of a sea captain or unwittingly fondling his sister (it's a long story), the overall impression is that he constantly needs to prove himself.
