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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
proprietorial
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Goats chewed the shadows of the rock and gazed with proprietorial sarcasm and planted themselves in my path to watch me hesitate.
▪ His stare was uncompromising, almost proprietorial.
▪ However, it is unlikely that such proprietorial power will be exercised without reference to commercial considerations or marketing considerations.
▪ I walked up Fernhill Rise with a feeling of proprietorial pride.
▪ In recent years, the evidence for proprietorial interference has become even more weighty.
▪ It was a lazy, almost careless gesture; only Caroline knew that the pressure of his hand was remorseless and proprietorial.
▪ One proprietorial hand was laid, light as a priestly blessing, on an old-fashioned microscope in gleaming brass.
▪ Paula looked every inch a model these days, Arlene thought with a touch of proprietorial pride.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Proprietorial

Proprietorial \Pro*pri`e*to"ri*al\, a. Of or pertaining to ownership; proprietary; as, proprietorial rights.

Wiktionary
proprietorial

a. 1 Of or pertaining to ownership 2 Characteristic of a proprietor

Usage examples of "proprietorial".

Isabella left her admirers and came to her immediately, and Centaine took her arm in a comfortable proprietorial gesture.

She kissed him, and then took her place beside him with her arm linked through his in a proprietorial fashion.

She felt a strange proprietorial pride in the ingenuity and dedication of the development team.

And it was this sense of personal kinship -mingled I will admit with a certain proprietorial pride as one of his loyal fans that emboldened me to step forward from my place in the shadows and address him man to man.

To which, still without a word, he kissed her in what I considered an excessively proprietorial manner, left cheek, right cheek, then her left cheek a second time while he took the measure of me.

She put a hand up and adjusted his scarf in a slightly proprietorial way.

She thanked him prettily, feeling a little uneasy at the proprietorial air he had suddenly adopted towards her.

She snapped the waistband of her jeans together and reached over to pull the front of his hat onto his forehead in a proprietorial gesture.

In spite of her distress, Shareem was amused by the proprietorial pride the machine took in Aleytys.

He reached the cannon and put a proprietorial hand on its bullet-flecked barrel.

Marrick assumed proprietorial charge of the flashlight, and now wielding a crowbar in his other fist, shone his beam ahead into a rubble-filled corridor.

Michael grilled steaks on a brick-built barbecue with a flourish of proprietorial strength inside a shiny vinyl apron.

But, for all the sharing with the others, Georgos had a proprietorial feeling, bordering on affection, for Yvette.

With a disgustingly proprietorial gesture, Franco put his arm round her waist.

Cron-Su, but although she did her best to assume a proprietorial air towards the broken down establishment that went by the name of Acme Androids, it was clear that a machine called Harl-n was really in control and made all the decisions.