agony aunt

British  

noun

1. Gender-netural form: advice columnist.  (sometimes capital) a person who writes the replies to readers' letters in an agony column

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Example Sentences

Did Peggy spark the violent ire of someone she harshly criticized in her role of “agony aunt”? Or might her opposition to the building of an expensive real-estate development have prompted her death?

From The Wall Street Journal

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