Motherly is valid Scrabble Word

Is motherly a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is motherly valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
16 points in Scrabble
16 points in WWF

Definitions for MOTHERLY in dictionary:

VERB:

In a manner of a mother.

ADVERB:

in a maternal manner; as a mother

ADJECTIVE:

maternal
of, resembling, or characteristic of a mother, especially in being caring, protective, and kind
of or resembling a mother, esp in warmth, or protectiveness
Of or pertaining to a mother; like, or suitable for, a mother; tender; maternal; as, motherly authority, love, or care.
befitting a mother; warm and nurturing

Words related to MOTHERLY

maternalistic17 motherliness17 motherliest16 motherlier15

Words that contain MOTHERLY

unmotherly18 stepmotherly22 grandmotherly23

How to use MOTHERLY in a sentence

The third of the chums was Violet Farrington, a daughter of Richard Farrington, a well-known lawyer of North Bend, and Grace Farrington, a sweet, motherly woman.
And shortly after that we all pushed back to bed, Angela warning me in a motherly voice not to take the stairs too quickly.
But she was half blind now, and a good deal deaf, and her sweet old mouth was hard to get at when she kissed you, as she had a motherly way of insisting if she liked you.
The motherly woman was beginning to be anxious about them, and the old gentleman had a fair-haired little daughter of eleven summers, whom he especially loved and longed to see.
My piercing cry brought several persons to the spot, and one among them sat down and soothed me in a motherly way.
Mother might have had enough honour and motherly protection to have kept the tale of my sins to herself.
The sister eight years older than her brother and acted a motherly part towards him.
The sister was eight years older than her brother and acted a motherly part towards him.
It was merely a motherly wrath, however, and those of us who have had mothers will at once realize what that wrath amounted to.
And Aunt Regine, too, the woman who had once shown an almost motherly affection for him, she turned her back on him as if ashamed of her first impulse to speak to him.

For the female patron of art, just because there are so few male patrons of it, is apt to take a motherly interest in the artist.
In response to the motherly communication which follows, these family gatherings were arranged, and succeeded beyond the original expectations of she who suggested them.
The good motherly folk at the lighthouse fairly bubbled over with joy as they chattered and poured out sympathy and busied themselves with attending to our creature comforts.
One white lady-duck, motherly and trim, Eight little baby-ducks bound for a swim.
Landholm was silent, but kissed her with those soft motherly kisses which had comfort and love in every touch of them.
Although not as beautiful as Jane, nor at any time as sulky as Esther can be, she has those motherly traits of character which command respect.
Harlow Martha had a queer motherly kind of friendship, and it was really by her advice the ladies had been led to think of a return to Harlow House.
Lucy does not look motherly, but Harry is taken up with her.
As he passed in at the gate he saw the motherly figure of Mrs.
Sarah required a motherly care over her, her father was spoiling her.
It is the motherly instinct that causes little girls to show such a fondness for dolls, a perfectly natural feeling which may be encouraged to a moderate degree without injury.
Mansfield could have known how solicitous, how tender, how motherly, the girl felt at that moment under her mask of shining, radiant hardness! But Mrs.
The anxiety of motherly love had effected what neither the departure of the empress nor the news of the approach of the Cossacks could do.
He was treated with motherly kindness and tenderness, yet firmly checked when he went wrong.
She was a wholesome, hearty, motherly looking woman, and Nan Sherwood was attracted to her at first sight.
It was a boyish thing to do, and it caught the hesitating girl in the depths of her heart as the boy element in a man ever appeals to a motherly woman.
He was a gentle old soul who loved children and understood them, and a more motherly creature than his wife could not well be imagined.
Rushton felt a motherly sensation which she had never before known in all her frivolous life.
She seemed to rest on me much for sympathy and comfort, and soon grew to regard me with a sort of motherly fondness that of itself brightened her life.
Never for an instant had he taken his eyes from her face as she related the pathetic story of motherly shame.

Similar words containing MOTHER without suffix ly

mother11 mothers12 mothery15 smother12 mothered14 smothers13 smothery16 godmother16 motherese14 mothering15 smothered15 smotherer14 motherier14 foremother18 godmothers17 homothermy23 mothereses15 motherhood19 motherings16 motherland16 motherless15 motherwort18 smotherers15 smothering16 stepmother17 unmotherly18 motherlike19 motherlode16 smotherier15 motheriest15 motherlier15 foremothers19 godmothered19 grandmother18 homothermal21 homothermic23 housemother19 motherboard19 mothercraft21 motherhoods20 motherhouse19 motherlands17 motherworts19 smotherings17 stepmothers18 motherlodes17 motherliest16 smotheriest16 chemotherapy27 crymotherapy27 godmothering20 grandmothers19 homothermies22 homothermous22 housemothers20 motherboards20 mothercrafts22 motherfucker26 motherhouses20 motherliness17 normothermia19 normothermic21 smotheriness17 smotheringly21 stepmotherly22 unmotherlier17 chromotherapy28 grandmotherly23 motherfuckers27 motherfucking28 normothermias20 thermotherapy26 unsmotherable20 unmotherliest18 chemotherapies26 chemotherapist26 crymotherapies26 motherlessness19 motherlinesses19 smotherinesses19 stepmotherlier21 chemotherapists27 chromotherapies27 thermotherapies25 stepmotherliest22 grandmotherlier22 chemotherapeuti27 motherlessnesse20 motherlessnesses21 chemotherapeutic30 chemotherapeutics31 chemotherapeutically37

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