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- adjective Not
avuncular ; not befitting or characteristic of anuncle .
Etymologies
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un- + avuncular
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Examples
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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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