Examples of fatherly

• She decided that though she had three good dads (or perhaps, three fatherly friends), none of them were perfect, for they had wrongfully deceived her.

• She was released from jail after the fatherly intercession of a police officer.

• Where is your fatherly heart?

• First of all, the novel goes far towards establishing working-class men as exemplars of a new model of fatherly care.

• The small man when he starts wants a fatherly guiding hand.

• He is a popular figure, always ready with some fatherly advice and a good yarn to tell.

• He is writing fatherly letters of advice up and down the country telling people how to save water, and what they should do.

• I have heard with astonishment the declarations from the benches opposite—their sudden fatherly interest in the children.