Is this corruption, or the fulfilling of an avuncular duty?
Jupp shows that the cartoonists' caricature of the duke - an ' avuncular dictator ' - was close to the mark.
Arthurian patriarchs do not survive but are replaced by fraternal figures, avuncular figures, sons of emasculated fathers, femmes fatales, and an occasional monster or two.
It would be nice if some union officials in future were a little more paternal, and even avuncular, rather than the elderly fraternal bully.
His sometimes avuncular and always perspicacious attention to the latter has alone set his successor a formidable and exciting challenge.
In his kind, avuncular way he said that perhaps we were innocents in shark-invested waters.
I have often remarked that the people who command most confidence and have the best avuncular status are the people who have regional accents.
His twinkling eyes, his disarming smile, those expressive eyebrows, his rubicund countenance and his avuncular generosity made him for me the very personification of kindliness.
