agony aunt

noun

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

Example Sentences

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.

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Legend has it, she had an arranged marriage gone wrong, a frozen man to deal with and ended up as an agony aunt.

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Taking the stand as the first witness on Wednesday morning, the agony aunt behind the long-running Ask E Jean advice column said Mr Trump's attacks on her had destroyed her reputation.

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Doyle Kennedy said she loved the way “Maria approaches everything — being an agony aunt, solving a murder — through food.”

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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.

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