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fatherly

[ UK /fˈɑːðəli/ ]
[ US /ˈfɑðɝɫi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. like or befitting a father or fatherhood; kind and protective

How To Use fatherly In A Sentence

  • So I may say, that the excess of your fatherly affection drives me into such a strait, that I shall be forced to live and die ungrateful; unless that crime be redressed by the sentence of the Stoics, who say that there are three parts in a benefit, the one of the giver, the other of the receiver, the third of the remunerator; and that the receiver rewards the giver when he freely receives the benefit and always remembers it; as, on the contrary, that man is most ungrateful who despises and forgets a benefit. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • His aged voice was hoarse, slow and soothing, a fatherly sound that Alsonte found foreign.
  • Then he broke into hearty laughter, and strangely, patted my shoulder in an almost fatherly manner.
  • His sweaty hand grabs my shoulder in a fatherly gesture as he comes to sit down on the bar stool beside me.
  • Is there one piece of fatherly advice that sums him up?
  • It looked like a bit of fatherly advice was being dished out. The Sun
  • They were miniature foxes and so he greeted them respectfully, prostrating himself in a most unfatherly way.
  • The Astros and White Sox worked hard to get to the series, but their rosters surely don't offer up fodder for grandfatherly reminiscence down the road.
  • He's presented as a saint, from his easy rapport with his students to his loving but pragmatic relationship with his wife, Lorri, and fatherly affection for his adorable moppet kids.
  • His fatherly care and protection to her niece is the result of this. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert, Formerly Ann Taylor
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