proprietorial

There was certainly nothing even the least bit proprietorial about that remark!

Harrison looked around him with an air of proprietorial pride.

He waved a hand with a sort of proprietorial gesture.

It was clear that everyone had felt equally proprietorial about Philip.

He sat with a proprietorial hand resting on a sack at his side.

She lifted her arm and held mine in a proprietorial fashion.

The note of proprietorial pride in his voice was palpable.

In recent years, the evidence for proprietorial interference has become even more weighty.

Some may prefer the anonymity of a less proprietorial enterprise.

And he tightened his grip on the man's arm, a proprietorial gesture.

One of the groom's brothers-in-law had taken a proprietorial interest in me.

He had the proprietorial look of a satisfied sponsor.

She wanted to shrug off his firm, proprietorial grasp but managed to resist.

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

The episode raised questions in my mind about proprietorial influence on editorial independence and freedom.

Proprietorial satisfaction had begun to vibrate beneath the hard level of his voice.

Chris laid a proprietorial hand on the car's flank.

Cortes smiled with proprietorial pride as his warriors got into position.

Everybody in it wanted to talk, especially the many members of the proprietorial family, the Killeens.

"My dear," he said, taking the girl's arm in a proprietorial way, "your father needs some help entertaining the guests."

Batman led Tombstone around to the nose of the aircraft with a proprietorial air.

"Come and get your drink now," Plantagenet invited, becoming more proprietorial by the moment.

Oscar took hold of her arm, and the contact, light but proprietorial, checked her.

Cap askew, Spider placed himself before it with proprietorial pride.

"It's my private receipt what does it," she said, with a proprietorial pat of the pottery bowl.