agony aunt
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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One TikTok user, who goes by the name Ngo Keĩta, plays the role of a popular agony aunt, posting clips in Wolof, the language spoken most widely in Senegal.
From Seattle Times
Legend has it, she had an arranged marriage gone wrong, a frozen man to deal with and ended up as an agony aunt.
From BBC
Doyle Kennedy said she loved the way “Maria approaches everything — being an agony aunt, solving a murder — through food.”
From New York Times
Between her memoir, podcast, a recent novel and her gig as an agony aunt for a British newspaper, many young British women see her as the trusted voice of a close friend.
From New York Times
It's part of an agony aunt's role to be compassionate, but Dolly admits not everyone has the same level of understanding when it comes to modern dating problems.
From BBC
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