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Unchivalrous   Listen
adjective
Unchivalrous  adj.  See chivalrous.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Unchivalrous" Quotes from Famous Books



... mebbe; though the pleasure's all on their side," returned the unchivalrous Ansel. "But take them same women, cut their hair close to their heads (there's a heap o' foolishness in hair, somehow), purge 'em o' their vanity, so they won't be lookin' in the glass all the time, make 'em depend on one another for sassiety, so they won't crave ...
— Homespun Tales • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... was the most critical question with which Lord Durham had to deal, and it was ultimately the cause of his withdrawal, so timid and unchivalrous was the Government of the day in the face of political and journalistic criticism. While granting a general amnesty to the rank and file of the offenders, the High Commissioner offended constitutional pedants by deporting eight of the leading revolutionists ...
— Old Quebec - The Fortress of New France • Sir Gilbert Parker and Claude Glennon Bryan

... it cannot fail to look unchivalrous, especially to the Southern-born of Americans, to see how willing Englishmen are to permit their women to wait upon them even ...
— Abroad with the Jimmies • Lilian Bell



Words linked to "Unchivalrous" :   caddish, ungallant, discourteous



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