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Definition of "stewardly" []

  • Befitting a steward. (adjective)
  • Managing; careful; provident. (adjective)
  • With or as with the care of a steward; prudently; providently. (adverb)

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Use "stewardly" in a sentence
  • "If she could nurture his inadequacies and keep him in a stewardly frame of mind, maybe one day he would make an obedient husband for somebody like his father was to her, she told herself."
  • "No answer, but a great shaking of stewardly heads."
  • "Consumers who feel a prompting toward land stewardship find that in this economy they can have no stewardly practice."