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  • adjective Not avuncular; not befitting or characteristic of an uncle.

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un- +‎ avuncular

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Examples

  • Here he paused as expecting some comment but finding me silent, continued: "My father was killed with Sir John Moore, at Corunna, and I was brought up by a curmudgeonly uncle, the most preposterous unavuncular uncle that ever bullied a defenceless nephew to the dogs.

    Peregrine's Progress Jeffery Farnol 1915

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