Dadlike

"Dadlike" in a Sentence (3 examples)

He put his hand around the back of my neck in a friendly, dadlike way.

He still has that dadlike tone that means I must obey him, so I sit.

For most apes and probably for early hominids, we wouldn't expect much dadlike behavior.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.