Like or befitting a father or fatherhood; kind and protective.
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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.
1 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 .
4 Fatherlike , he thought he had done enough for a bit, and would enjoy a "sunning reaction" on the summerhouse roof.
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