Meaning

(informal) The quality of being dadly..

Example Sentences

Dadliness: Bill Cole meets Elise at the school bus with Brenna and Will (top), and later celebrates mom Marianne’s birthday.

>>her dad for some weird reason has / >>decided she shouldn't dye her hair anymore / > / >Prolly because it makes him think he's raising chrysanthemums, not / >daughters. / Well, her hair is normally a dark brown color so what the red dye does is just add auburn highlights to it...it's not a really obnoxious change and I thought looked very nice myself. He's just exercising his omnipotent Dadliness I guess. *shrug*

What are dads for? This vexed question underlies Frank Cottrell Boyce’s hilarious and ingenious hymn to dadliness and all things dadly.

Gradually, through coping with Florida’s tantrums and his fellow fathers’ foibles, he acquires and understanding of what “dadliness” (as he calls it) is all about.

He returns, but not before a funny and often profound exploration of how parents and children behave, and of the essence of “dadliness.”

He was more prescient than he realized: A month later, Pitchfork — the very site that had given Wilco a 5.2 rating for committing the sin of dadliness — cleared its slate of new album reviews one Wednesday and declared it Steely Dan Day, publishing five re-evaluations of the group’s “most influential records.”

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Use dadliness when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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