Not having or showing the affectionate or protective characteristics associated with a father.
无父爱的；有失父亲身份的
God's nature was thought of as austere and unfatherly
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Indeed, the initial inspiration behind the formation of the organisation was his belief that his unfatherly behaviour was the reason his daughter got pregnant on a one-night-stand.
But such an unfatherly answer does not still our hunger.
Ismay, who has never discussed the incident with her sister, thinks she murdered Guy because she found him kissing Ismay in an unfatherly way.
They were miniature foxes and so he greeted them respectfully, prostrating himself in a most unfatherly way.
With an age difference like that, they had to be father and daughter - but then I saw the man put his arm around her in a most unfatherly way.
He casts out his daughter in unfatherly fashion and then laments the ingratitude of his daughters.
After the flogging, Mick becomes an imposing monster in his house, threatening his wife, and developing a severely unfatherly interest in his youngest daughter.
He did not allow Beatrice to have boyfriends and entertained some rather unfatherly thoughts, which he expressed in verse.