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Definition of unfatherly in English: unfatherlyadjectiveʌnˈfɑːðəli Not having or showing the affectionate or protective characteristics associated with a father. God's nature was thought of as austere and unfatherly Example sentencesExamples - Indeed, the initial inspiration behind the formation of the organisation was his belief that his unfatherly behaviour was the reason his daughter got pregnant on a one-night-stand.
- But such an unfatherly answer does not still our hunger.
- Ismay, who has never discussed the incident with her sister, thinks she murdered Guy because she found him kissing Ismay in an unfatherly way.
- They were miniature foxes and so he greeted them respectfully, prostrating himself in a most unfatherly way.
- With an age difference like that, they had to be father and daughter - but then I saw the man put his arm around her in a most unfatherly way.
- He casts out his daughter in unfatherly fashion and then laments the ingratitude of his daughters.
- After the flogging, Mick becomes an imposing monster in his house, threatening his wife, and developing a severely unfatherly interest in his youngest daughter.
- He did not allow Beatrice to have boyfriends and entertained some rather unfatherly thoughts, which he expressed in verse.
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