bluntly

Example Sentences

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It’s not inappropriate casting: Tomei is a suitably auntly 31 years older than new Spider-Man Tom Holland.

From The Guardian • Jul. 11, 2015

Authoress Gale, no ten-talent writer, still possesses the tenderness of her youth, but it has grown a little mushy, auntly sentimental.

From Time Magazine Archive

Miss Madigan went out into the future, sent thither by her auntly sense of responsibility, and brought it back with her.

From The Madigans by Lowell, Orson

To be an aunt, Miss Fanny said there was so much to learn Of proper auntly methods she knew not where to turn.

From Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 18, May 3, 1914 by Various

"I don't even know that Charlotte is going," Mrs. Haviland said, with an auntly smile of baffling sweetness that yet contained a subtle reproof.

From The Heart of Rachael by Norris, Kathleen Thompson