unprincessly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not princessly.
Example Sentences
- "She not only will never permit any one to touch her hair, which she always dresses and arranges herself, according to her own particular notions of grace and beauty, a thing which, I venture to think, and may perhaps suggest, is very unladylike, not to say unprincessly, savouring of plebeian independence, and low, artist-like individuality of taste, wholly unbecoming her distinguished rank and station;—[…]"
- "Some of the papers, with questionable taste, present Mrs. [Alice Roosevelt] Longworth to their readers as the American “Princess.” There is nothing in her ways, bearing, or appearance to warrant the epithet which I give, as printed, in inverted commas. Her natural, unconstrained, yet lady-like, manners are the opposite of princessly. She has chic, which, too, is unprincessly. Most princesses are shy when they find themselves with ordinary people."
- "Switching from crying to laughing, Gabriella snorted—the most unprincessly sound she had ever made."
Etymology
From un- + princessly.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un
Inflected Forms
more unprincessly (comparative)
most unprincessly (superlative)