motherly

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Each has done their motherly duty and views home and family as the center of their world.

From Salon • Mar. 21, 2026

She noted my American accent and told me with gentle, motherly scorn that I shouldn’t be traveling while pregnant.

From Salon • Dec. 3, 2025

Eventually, Del Valle also landed the voice role of Val the Octopus, a motherly figure in the now-beloved animated series “Dora the Explorer.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2025

"It's not coming from the motherly, feminine side of it," Ms Rabinovitch-Fox added.

From BBC • Sep. 4, 2025

They were motherly old women of the southern type and I suddenly felt a nameless despair.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison