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sisterly

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈsɪstəli/Part of speech adjectiveSorted eilrsstyStarts with SEnds with Y0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. like or characteristic of or befitting a sister

Word origin

From sister + -ly (adjectival suffix).

Used in a sentence

  • Poor Mary [Austin] will do her very best and sisterliest for you. A kinder soul is not in the Earth.
  • Burton designed both Middleton sisters' dresses in white, so that when Pippa picked up Kate's train in the abbey, the two of them were united, visually, in a display of sisterly togetherness.
  • "What honest man, who is not insane, would take lost women and thieves into his house to dwell with him sisterly and brotherly?"

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