Harry Lucas was to all of us who knew him a mentor, a tutor and avuncular friend.
He had to admit that it was not unpleasant to be taken in hand by some one so positive and avuncular.
He is capable of avuncular charm, wheezy laughter and mischievous wit as well as grizzly ferocity and stick-in-the-mud reactionary attitudes and walking-stick-in-the-hand swashbuckling.
Just keep an avuncular, supervisory eye on them.
Under other circumstances she might have found it avuncular but now it was oppressive.
We really only knew him through childhood over-the-counter dealings smiling, ever-patient, avuncular.
behaving in a kind and nice way to someone who is younger, rather like an uncle: an avuncular pat on the shoulder