avuncular
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4ADJ.
great, intellectual, nice, public
VERB + AVUNCULAR
discharge
AVUNCULAR + NOUN
mien, obligations, personality
ADV.
such
Definitions
adj
In the manner of an uncle, pertaining to an uncle.
Both uncle Frank and uncle Stephen Austen had made it a point of principle to be rigorously unsentimental in the discharge of their avuncular obligations.
In 2021, the Times described you as an “avuncular public intellectual.” How do you feel about that label? [Stephen Fry:] Oh my lordy lord. Avuncular gives me great pleasure.
Kind, genial, benevolent, or tolerant.
A man with such a nice, avuncular personality would not blow up the world.
I imagine the Dreamward’s Hotel Manager to be an avuncular Norwegian with a rag sweater and a soothing odor of Borkum Rif about him, a guy w/o sunglasses or hauteur who throws open the pressurized doors to the Dreamward’s Bridge and galley and Vacuum Sewage System and personally takes me through, offering pithy and quotable answers to questions before I’ve even asked them.
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4Both uncle Frank and uncle Stephen Austen had made it a point of principle to be rigorously unsentimental in the discharge of their avuncular obligations.
WiktionaryIn 2021, the Times described you as an “avuncular public intellectual.” How do you feel about that label? [Stephen Fry:] Oh my lordy lord. Avuncular gives me great pleasure.
WiktionaryA man with such a nice, avuncular personality would not blow up the world.
WiktionaryHis avuncular mien endears him to small children.
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