adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Sam gave her an avuncular squeeze.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Harry Lucas was to all of us who knew him a mentor, a tutor and avuncular friend.
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He had to admit that it was not unpleasant to be taken in hand by some one so positive and avuncular .
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He is capable of avuncular charm, wheezy laughter and mischievous wit as well as grizzly ferocity and stick-in-the-mud reactionary attitudes and walking-stick-in-the-hand swashbuckling.
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Just keep an avuncular , supervisory eye on them.
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Under other circumstances she might have found it avuncular but now it was oppressive.
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We really only knew him through childhood over-the-counter dealings smiling, ever-patient, avuncular .