Crossword-Solution: AVUNCULAR 9 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Wilfred Bohun stood rooted to the spot long enough to see the idiot go out into the sunshine, and even to see his dissolute brother hail him with a sort of avuncular jocularity.

And there is the root of the matter; writing has come to be recognized as a profession, almost as cut- and-dried as church or law; a lad may go into it with full parental approval, with ready avuncular support.

You didn't-" "I boxed and fenced--some." "When did you last box?" "Not since; but I was considered an excellent judge of time and distance, only I was--er-" "Go on." "Considered desultory." "Lazy, you mean." "I always imagined it was an euphemism." "My father, sir, your grandfather, old Isaac Bellew, killed a man with a blow of his fist when he was sixty-nine years old." "The man?" "No, your--you graceless scamp! But you'll never kill a mosquito at sixty-nine." "The times have changed, oh, my avuncular.

When I was sixteen I toyed with things like that." "You forget, avuncular," Kit retorted, "that I wasn't raised on bear-meat." "And I'll toy with it when I'm sixty." "You've got to show me." John Bellew did.

His avuncular title was evidently only an ironical tribute to his amiable incompetency and heavy good-nature, for he was still a young man with no family ties, and by reason of his singular shyness not even a visitor in the few families of the neighborhood.