avuncular

Example Sentences

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Assuming an avuncular tone, the elder crow apologizes for smacking you on your noggin before going on to explain that it, too, used to work as a reaper.

From Washington Post

It has been helped by the fact that Mark Drakeford has become an electoral asset, newly recognised and mostly popular, an avuncular "safe pair of hands".

From BBC

Biden, reassuringly unradical with his plain, avuncular demeanor, is bidding to create a new common sense rooted in political lessons that Democrats have learned the hard way.

From Washington Post

An early host was the avuncular Percy Thrower, who showed up in a starched shirt and tie, and dispensed guidance while puffing on a pipe.

From Washington Post

So far, whether through his jocular Twitter account or in interviews, Cohen evokes the image of the agreeable, avuncular kind of owner more than a stern task master.

From New York Times