Definitions
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- adverb in an unchivalrous and ungallant manner
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Examples
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Prejean, whom Somerby unchivalrously describes as "an insignificant 21-year-old," competed as Miss California in the Miss USA beauty pageant.
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All the same, I was surprised to see Mark behave so unchivalrously.
Farthing 2006
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Then, somewhat unchivalrously, he shoved the candelabra into her grasp and muttered, Here.
Pirates Linda Miller 1995
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He went on more cheerfully, telling himself unchivalrously that he had got Mary V's goat, all right.
Skyrider B. M. Bower 1905
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"When I doctored your foot?" he finished, rather unchivalrously, chuckling in his delight at her pretty discomfiture.
Flower of the North James Oliver Curwood 1903
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Possibly some of the boys who behaved so unchivalrously toward her helped right manfully to conquer us of the South into the views they now entertain.
Our Brother in Black: His Freedom and His Future Atticus Greene 1881
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I would rather this tongue should wither than that I should unchivalrously permit it to deviate one straw's breadth from the truth in order to attain a selfish purpose.
Barbara Blomberg — Volume 10 Georg Ebers 1867
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I would rather this tongue should wither than that I should unchivalrously permit it to deviate one straw's breadth from the truth in order to attain a selfish purpose.
Barbara Blomberg — Complete Georg Ebers 1867
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I would rather this tongue should wither than that I should unchivalrously permit it to deviate one straw's breadth from the truth in order to attain a selfish purpose.
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867
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Pamphlets were circulated to rouse the enthusiasm of the nation, by depicting the wrongs of a young and beautiful queen, so unchivalrously assailed by bearded monarchs in overwhelming combination.
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