unqueenlyadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈkwiːnli/, U.S. /ˌənˈkwinli/ Not queenly.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [adjective] > unseemly > for specific people
unprincely1536
ungentlemanly1562
unprincelike1579
unroyala1586
knightless1590
ungentlemanlike1592
unknightly1596
unkingly1606
unregal1611
ungentlemanny1667
unqueenlike1679
unofficerlike1746
unladylike1766
unquality-like1784
ungentlewomanlike1789
unqueenly1819
unpatriarchal1836
1819 Lancaster Gaz. 16 Jan. 1/3 Giving a..child that nourishment, which Nature designed for it herself; a most maternal, but, we suspect, a most unqueenly, as well as unfashionable virtue indeed.
1884 Truth 13 Mar. 383/1 Her..modest bearing and unqueenly ways.
1920 H. A. Lamb Marching Sands xxii. 260 In her chamber she flung herself down on the cushions and gave herself up to a most unqueenly fit of weeping.
2001 Jrnl. Musicol. 18 588 [Dido's] untimely death, though self-inflicted, cannot but be partly understood as her punishment for unqueenly behavior.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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