avuncular
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Avuncular and experienced, he advises her to be more likable, which seems futile, because everyone she meets quickly gets exasperated by her combination of earnest idealism and hall-monitor insistence.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025
Avuncular Walt invited us into his lair, promising “the Happiest Place on Earth.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2019
Avuncular and with a penchant for giving hugs, he was widely liked in Washington but was not a power broker in the mold of Hawaii’s former senior U.S. senator, Daniel K. Inouye.
From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2018
Avuncular in manner, he is nonetheless steely and disciplined.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 12, 2015
Avuncular, a-vung′kū-lar, adj. pertaining to an uncle.—v.t. or v.i.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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