unregaladj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈriːɡl/, U.S. /ˌənˈriɡ(ə)l/ Not regal.
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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
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. vi. 460/2 King Henry..seeing no issue of his long disquietnes, and vnregall vsages.
1816 Repository of Arts Aug. 111 On the whole, it is indeed a most unregal cortège, and gives a very different impression from the mounted appearance of the monarch, which altogether is oriental and military.
1835 W. R. Wilson Rec. Route France & Italy viii. 105 We saw the bridegroom set out, but in most unbridegroom and unregal trim—in a travelling carriage drawn by six post-horses, with ordinary rope harness.
1894 G. M. L. Bell Safar Nameh: Persian Pictures 114 We stopped before an unregal gateway.
1932 G. H. Edgell Hist. Sienese Painting i. 24 The painting is true to the Byzantine ideal which would forbid anything so vulgar, so unregal, as a suggestion that Christ suffered on the cross.
1981 New York 3 Aug. 31/2 Soon, Diana's blond hair came into view. She had swept the so unregal Sassoon fringe under her brim.
2008 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 21 Feb. 21/2 Scarlett Johansson showed off a somewhat unregal tattoo.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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