teacherly
adjEtymology From teacher + -ly.
1
Of or relating to teachers.
2
Suggestive of a teacher.
- Instead of establishing rapport, Dreiske distances us with her implicit condescension; her cool, measured, teacherly tone doesn't help matters, either.1988 November 18, Albert Williams, “Don't Call Me Cleo”, in Chicago Reader:
- While others take pains to reproduce Shawn's high, nervous stutter or his intense, anxious way of speaking, Shapiro--who looks nothing like Shawn--delivers this 90-minute piece in an easygoing, teacherly style that's the very antithesis of a New Yorker's hectic ways.1997 April 4, Jack Helbig, “The Fever”, in Chicago Reader:
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- Many of the lyrics were borrowed more or less intact from a 1986 grade-school textbook on Illinois history, and Greenfield delivers them in an earnest, teacherly tone enlivened by the occasional quippy aside or funny forced rhyme ("moratorium" / "Santorum").2004 May 14, Monica Kendrick, “Spot Check”, in Chicago Reader:
- Derived terms
- unteacherly