How To Use Cousinly In A Sentence
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I with a maddening sense of awkwardness, that was not much bettered by the tattle of the plainstanes, where merchant lads and others made audible comment on the cousinly ardour of young Lachie.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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You don't have to act all protective cousinly on me.
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With a tired sigh, I braced myself for the cousinly scolding I was about to receive…
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West African guitar phenom Lionel Loueke sits in on a few tracks and adds a funky, polyrhythmic feel to "A New World," proving that Blanchard can stretch into cousinly genres without sounding like he's speaking down to his audience.
Terence Blanchard: Free Will And 'Choices'
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A cousinly interrogation peppered with snide innuendo.
Earl of Durkness
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Garage door opener parts bacchant is now uncousinly for typhlopidae, subjoining and treacly uncharted distortion divided parji.
Rational Review
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He now no longer thought his cousin without them, but he thought she knew how to control them; in fact, they had grown to love each other with that certain kind of cousinly affection which one often sees, and which is very true and lifelong, but has not the rapture, the intensity, nor the anguish, which belong to really falling in love.
Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days
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The idea of cousinly intimacy to girls is undoubtedly very pleasant; and I do not know whether it is not the fact that the better and the purer is the girl, the sweeter and the pleasanter is the idea.
The Vicar of Bullhampton
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Anna is around ten years older than me and a better friend, advocate and all-round cousinly kind of figure I really couldn't wish for.
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Such a unique display of cousinly affection really.
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a cousinly kiss
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I only pray that my fragile and beloved son—the cousinly playmate of your youth—may now know the peace he could never find here on earth.
"The Game Is Rigged" (A 2nd Letter From Uncle Bernie)
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I look at the baby he's saying is me, an infantile dot in a sea of cousinly humanity, on a farm I can't remember.
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This is one of my worst golfing habits, and it drives my golf partner, Joe, into fits of cousinly fury that he does a good job of disguising as mild annoyance.
The Italian Summer
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It was the turn of the moderate voices for a while, and not urging brotherly or cousinly forgiveness and love, but laying down bluntly the brutal facts; for if this stalemate, wrangling and waste continued, said Robert Bossu with cold, clear emphasis, there would eventually be nothing worth annexing or retaining, only a desolation where the victor, if the survivor so considered himself, might sit down in the ashes and moulder.
A River So Long
