auntly

It is a short section from the opening paragraph of P.G. Wodehouse's story "Jeeves Makes an Omelette," in which Bertie Wooster muses to himself on the abominable problem of auntly relations:

Loathed, Lovable and Loopy Alexander Waugh 2007

Funny thing to be going out with the father of someone who had a perfectly good mother & family of her own -- try to be laid-back and auntly without taking over in any way.

in a Young's pub drummygirl 2005

"I don't even know that Charlotte is going," Mrs. Haviland said, with an auntly smile of baffling sweetness that yet contained a subtle reproof.

The Heart of Rachael Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

Miss Madigan went out into the future, sent thither by her auntly sense of responsibility, and brought it back with her.

The Madigans Miriam Michelson 1906

I say, freeing my neck briefly from an auntly elbow.

Life and style | guardian.co.uk Lucy Mangan 2010

For the past few months I have been nervously eyeballing the child, ever alert for signs that the faithy godbag indoctrination has begun to take, so that I might countermand that moron crap with an auntly intervention of Question Authority-ism.

I Blame The Patriarchy 2010

Her niece is seven or eight, so it was a matter of auntly duty to purchase a hat that would inevitably provoke amusement - or at least Erica is at liberty to claim that.

Epinions Recent Content for Home 2009

Now, Francie’s kind, round, auntly face looked pale and pinched, her gray hair looked as limp as mine felt, and she held her coat bunched against her chest to ward off the chill.

I. O. U. Nancy Pickard 1991

Now, Francie’s kind, round, auntly face looked pale and pinched, her gray hair looked as limp as mine felt, and she held her coat bunched against her chest to ward off the chill.

I. O. U. Nancy Pickard 1991

Now, Francie’s kind, round, auntly face looked pale and pinched, her gray hair looked as limp as mine felt, and she held her coat bunched against her chest to ward off the chill.

I. O. U. Nancy Pickard 1991