Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a parental manner; as a parent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a parental manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
parental manner, like aparent .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a parental manner
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Examples
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One, a former Murray Elementary cafeteria manager, stole over $5,000 in parentally-established lunch money accounts.
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One, a former Murray Elementary cafeteria manager, stole over $5,000 in parentally-established lunch money accounts.
Four Charged with Embezzling from Albemarle at cvillenews.com 2005
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There has, in the 1970s most of you will recall there was a particular case where ricin was injected, given what we call parentally (ph).
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Well, Naga and Tumbler are an item and sort of act parentally towards Terrastrike, even though her parents are still alive and well.
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Encouraged almost parentally by Isherwood, Bachardy became a deft, incisive, empathetic portraitist, sketching and painting the film stars he had admired since childhood; his success in a different field brought equilibrium and stability to the match.
Christopher Isherwood remembered: 'Chris always loved young men, and I was certainly young' Peter Conrad 2010
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For example, users such as children may send or receive messages (intentionally or not) with parentally objectionable language.
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We'd wonder if we were strange to not be seeing the separation as some parentally liberating event.
Rick Roth: Lucky to Be Sad Rick Roth 2010
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Fire a parentally unwanted teacher--with what kind of standard?
Stanley Kutler: Who Says It's Not About Destroying Unions? Stanley Kutler 2011
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We'd wonder if we were strange to not be seeing the separation as some parentally liberating event.
Rick Roth: Lucky to Be Sad Rick Roth 2010
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Similarly, an AWOL soldier or sailor or runaway child or parentally abducted child could be illegally present in a place where he resided and did not intend to return.
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