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词汇 sisterly
释义 sisterly
adjective
uk /ˈsɪs.təl.i/ us /ˈsɪs.tɚ.li/
feeling or behaving like a sister: 姐妹般的,亲如姐妹的
I felt sisterly towards him, but I couldn't marry him.我对他的感情如同兄妹,但我不能和他结婚。
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sisterly | American Dictionary


sisterly
adjective
us/ˈsɪs·tər·li/
like or characteristic of a sister:
sisterly love

Examples of sisterly


sisterly
The fraternal and sisterly tie and all family ties are loosened as a consequence of discontinuance of family life.
Not finding fulfillment in heterosexual love, she filled her life with friendships, many of which were sisterly.
Each new family formed by marriage, then, bears the mark of a woman's first, with the sisterly solidarity between orphans requiring a husband to embrace the second sister.
It may be said that there is only a sisterly or brotherly interest there.
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Could the noble lady be bit more sisterly?
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Brotherly love and sisterly love disappear.
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Minna has a sisterly air that shows her concern for those under her command.
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Despite her misgivings with her brother, she has occasionally shown sisterly love towards him.
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Except for the occasional spat, they are inseparable and sisterly in the most extreme ways.
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She also argues that slanderous speech erodes ones honor and threatens the sisterly bond among women.
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Kind and sisterly, she takes good care of the younger generation.
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Their relationship began as a sisterly/best friends.
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The girls form and intense and unidentifiable relationship which has both romantic and sisterly implications.
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She is a sisterly, despite the people of the sea are born out of shells and don't have parents nor direct family.
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