proprietorial
- a word derived from proprietor.
Example Sentences
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One wonders if that’s going to change, but I kind of feel a little proprietorial about that relationship.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2023
In Melbourne, they strut with a proprietorial air by the river.
From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2022
The BBC is free of commercial and proprietorial pressure.
From BBC • Sep. 7, 2021
They know the value of having a free-thinking, unattached news organisation which can look into places others don’t because of commercial or proprietorial interest.
From The Guardian • Nov. 14, 2018
In the dunes, close to where Turner and the corporals stood, men had already dug themselves holes from which they peeped out, proprietorial and smug.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
