Crossword-Solution: SISTERLY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sisterly | a. | Like a sister; becoming a sister, affectionate; as, sisterly kindness; sisterly remorse. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “SISTERLY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Affectionate, in a certain way. | 1 answer |
| Befitting a female sibling | 1 answer |
| Like affection between female friends | 1 answer |
| Sororal | 1 answer |
| like or characteristic of or befitting a sister | 1 answer |
| of or like a sister | 1 answer |
| rescuing | 36 answers |
| Watchful | 66 answers |
| Affectionate | 71 answers |
| Vigilant | 71 answers |
| Kindly | 79 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CZEMAE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SISTERLY (5)
The Colonel reproached his daughter for her lack of filial kindness and respect, her want of sisterly affection and womanly consideration.
Her admiration and regard, even her sisterly regard, was all his own; but he was a lover; his attentions were wholly Marianne’s, and a far less agreeable man might have been more generally pleasing.
The conditions of brotherly and sisterly feeling were wanting—we had never nestled and played together.
She was not at all well-off,--was indeed rather poor than otherwise,--and here was her only brother a millionaire, and in her dumb way she had a sisterly affection for him, and yet she could not be argued or cajoled into touching a penny of his money.
She persisted in talking with him in a half sisterly fashion about his studies and his future career, warned him with great solicitude against some of his reprobate friends, of whose merry adventures he had told her; and if he ventured to compliment her on her beauty or her accomplishments, she would look up gravely from her sewing, or answer him in a way which seemed to banish the idea of love-making into the land of the impossible.
Quotes with SISTERLY (3)
I think beauty is rarely worth the trouble.” Shahrzad gripped Irsa’s hand tighter in sisterly solidarity. “But I am worth a great deal more than what you see.
Those thoughts come to me in the night, those thought and thoughts of becoming sick or helpless, of the nursing home, of lingering death. I gnaw again the old bones of the fear of what is to come, and grieve with a sisterly grief over Grandmam and Mrs. Feltner and the other old women who have gone before. Finally, as a gift, as a mercy, I remember to pray, 'Thy will be done,' and then again I am free and can go to sleep.
The bond of sisterly love is much tighter than the bond which binds men.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, LAT, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1956–2012).