kinfolk
Example Sentences
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The best example of this is the famous "Key & Peele" skit of President Obama reserving dap for skin folk and kinfolk alike while extending the standard handshake for white folks.
From Salon • Feb. 19, 2024
The story line in “Shucked” is partly a corollary to the real-life relationship between Horn’s Yankee family and his husband’s Southern kinfolk.
From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2023
As she watched volunteers pass out turkeys, she said she was “taking care of my kinfolk here.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2021
This kind of loyalty, however, does not help their well-known kinfolk.
From Washington Post • Nov. 11, 2021
She told Mama Tataba we could get by on things that looked less like kinfolk.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.