The Only Use of
avuncular
in
Unbroken, by Hillenbrand
- Pete Zamperini was handsome, popular, impeccably groomed, polite to elders and avuncular to juniors, silky smooth with girls, and blessed with such sound judgment that even when he was a child, his parents consulted him on difficult decisions.†
p. 7.9
Definition:
like an uncle in kindness or indulgence