unfatherly

I commented already on leaders 'inappropriate, abusive, "unfatherly" behavior in my August 28 post about.

futuristguy futuristguy 2008

“Well, son,” Professor Robbins began in a very unfatherly voice, “I must say, I've never seen a work quite like this one.”

Suicide Draft Nathaniel Tower 2011

What hit me was that everything I was feeling about her by then was about as goddamn unfatherly as you can get.

Sudden Rain Maritta Wolff 2009

In a rather weird unfatherly move, Vega's dad actually got worried about his daughter and hooked her up with a cowherder named Altair, another workaholic.

Tanabata 2005

In a rather weird unfatherly move, Vega's dad actually got worried about his daughter and hooked her up with a cowherder named Altair, another workaholic.

Archive 2005-07-01 2005

I'll break his neck, 'he said, with real and unfatherly viciousness.

Forfeit Francis, Dick 1968

I'll break his neck, 'he said, with real and unfatherly viciousness.

Forfeit Francis, Dick 1968

Composed of a circle of tents numbering about fifty, and exhibiting numbers of fine horses picketed near the tent-doors, it is as fine a specimen as we shall see of the patriarchal life inherited from the unfatherly father of Ishmael.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various

She did not deny the act, but pleaded justification, alleging that her husband was guilty of unfatherly conduct toward his daughter.

The North American Indian Edward S. Curtis 1910

The King in England, his councilors, and Parliament, played an unfatherly role, while in Virginia economic hardships pressed ever harder and the administration became more and more oppressive.

Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings Mary Johnston 1903