Synonyms
Examples for "fatherly"
Examples for "fatherly"
1
Also diffuse when making fatherly decisions, especially about the punishment of children.
2
Start a war? He sighed and went on in a fatherly tone.
3
His kind and fatherly heart was interested in the brave young nobleman.
4
Michael Stuhlbarg's loving, fatherly monologue should have earned him every possible award.
5
Anthony Hopkin's Odin also returns to deliver yet more portentous fatherly wisdom.
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He doesn't like hearing about the sex that much, but he doesn't get all fatherlike about it.
2
Doug's overtly stern yet fatherlike geniality returned.
3
Then we were, as it were, impregnated with the thought of God-a just God, but benevolent and fatherlike.
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Fatherlike, he thought he had done enough for a bit, and would enjoy a "sunning reaction" on the summerhouse roof.