unsmothering

English

Verb

unsmothering

1. present participle and gerund of unsmother

Adjective

unsmothering (comparative more unsmothering, superlative most unsmothering)

1. Not smothering.
   • 2011, Ann Widdecombe, Father Figure:

     He wanted Carol as a friend with her practicality, serenity and unsmothering sympathy.

   • 2017, Paul Auster, 4 3 2 1: A Novel, page 445:

     Ferguson could never let go of his mother, his unsmothering mother whose love was the source of all life for him, and merely to see her frown at him with that sad look in her eyes was a devastation, a bullet in the heart.

   • 2018, Molly MacRae, Scones and Scoundrels:

     You are the very model of unsmothering motherhood.

Anagrams

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