unsisterly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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adj

"[…] I desire I may throw myself at my father’s and mother’s feet, and hear from them what their sentence is. I shall at least avoid, by that means, the unsisterly insults I meet with from you."
"Mary was not so repulsive and unsisterly as Elizabeth, nor so inaccessible to all influence of hers […]"
"Felicity tossed her golden head and shot an unsisterly glance at Dan."

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English sisterly English unsisterly From un- + sisterly.

more unsisterly (comparative) most unsisterly (superlative)

unsisterliness

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