Definitions
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- noun The condition of being an
uncle - noun The condition of being
avuncular
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Examples
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Perry gives us Reagan and Bush combined, but with their efforts to hide behind avuncularity and goofiness abandoned.
Paul Slansky: The Imminent Overness of Sarah Palin Paul Slansky 2011
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Perry gives us Reagan and Bush combined, but with their efforts to hide behind avuncularity and goofiness abandoned.
Paul Slansky: The Imminent Overness of Sarah Palin Paul Slansky 2011
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Perry gives us Reagan and Bush combined, but with their efforts to hide behind avuncularity and goofiness abandoned.
Paul Slansky: The Imminent Overness of Sarah Palin Paul Slansky 2011
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In the two days since we learned of Cronkite's death, so much has been written about the man, about his rare tone of authority, about the avuncularity and comfort offered to couch potatoes by their "Uncle Walter," about the incredible events that he reported from moon walks to the Kennedy assassination.
Will Bunch: Walter's Choice --Cronkite's Lesson for Today's Journalists 2009
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Donald Carcieri, elected for his unsurpassed avuncularity, is in the death throes of his pathetic governorship of Rhode Island.
David Segal: Rhode Island Governor Vetoes Bill To Let Gay Partners Arrange Each Other's Funerals 2009
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Donald Carcieri, elected for his unsurpassed avuncularity, is in the death throes of his pathetic governorship of Rhode Island.
David Segal: Rhode Island Governor Vetoes Bill To Let Gay Partners Arrange Each Other's Funerals 2009
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Donald Carcieri, elected for his unsurpassed avuncularity, is in the death throes of his pathetic governorship of Rhode Island.
David Segal: Rhode Island Governor Vetoes Bill To Let Gay Partners Arrange Each Other's Funerals 2009
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Donald Carcieri, elected for his unsurpassed avuncularity, is in the death throes of his pathetic governorship of Rhode Island.
David Segal: Rhode Island Governor Vetoes Bill To Let Gay Partners Arrange Each Other's Funerals 2009
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Whether cast as heroes or villains, Horst Tappert had an air of amiability about him that was hard to dislike, a hangdog avuncularity that put him in the company of actors like Walter Matthau and Peter Falk.
Death Notice: Horst Tappert Arbogast 2008
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It wasn't the faux avuncularity we've come to expect from Stewart on "The Daily Show" but there, of course, he's playing a role.
October 2004 2004
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