Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Becoming a daughter; filial; dutiful.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Becoming a daughter; filial.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or relating to the characteristics of a
daughter .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective befitting a daughter
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Examples
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I am acting very daughterly, which is something I do too often for my age.
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Yes, there's something of her controlling treatment of Gina maybe that explains the daughterly demurral and of her friendships but not enough of, say, the men in her life and why she swore off them at a certain point.
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There's no room for anything in London; not even a sound bite of daughterly affection.
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Yes, there's something of her controlling treatment of Gina maybe that explains the daughterly demurral and of her friendships but not enough of, say, the men in her life and why she swore off them at a certain point.
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There's no room for anything in London; not even a sound bite of daughterly affection.
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Yes, there's something of her controlling treatment of Gina maybe that explains the daughterly demurral and of her friendships but not enough of, say, the men in her life and why she swore off them at a certain point.
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This daughterly testament shows the tightrope stretched between family and fiction: Because you are a county alderman and because this book concerns a county council, I feel that I owe you a certain explanation and apology. . .
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Yes, there's something of her controlling treatment of Gina maybe that explains the daughterly demurral and of her friendships but not enough of, say, the men in her life and why she swore off them at a certain point.
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There's no room for anything in London; not even a sound bite of daughterly affection.
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She's been dead for six years, and she was a good mother and good person -- no Mommy Dearest she -- but whatever warm, fuzzy, daughterly connection I had to her ended when I was very young.
Elizabeth Benedict: This Mother's Day: A Tech Savvy Mother-Daughter Fix
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