unsoldierly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not soldierly, not appropriate for a soldier.
adv
In a manner that is not appropriate for a soldier.
Example Sentences
- "His desertion was condemned as an unsoldierly act of cowardice."
- "For which most unsouldierly & unworthy action […] he had this insuing Judgement pronounced against him […]"
- "1718, Alexander Pope, The Iliad of Homer, London: Bernard Lintot, Volume 4, Observations on the Fourteenth Book, Verse 81, p. 131, He does not say, to shun the Battel, for that had been unsoldierly, but he softens the Phrase, and calls it, to shun Evil:"
- "Maurice. What, an unarm’d man? A man that never wore a sword? A priest? It is unsoldierly! I say, ye shall not!"
- "It is a miserable story. Even Yate, who saw it happen, betrays an unsoldierly sigh."
- "But as soon as the man in uniform gripped his pen and started writing, a change came over him. Sweat began to pour from his hair, from his widow’s peak down on to his forehead, and from the back of his head down into his collar. […] Such unsoldierly apprehension was not encouraging."
Etymology
From un- + soldierly.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un
Inflected Forms
more unsoldierly (comparative)
most unsoldierly (superlative)
unsouldierly (alternative)