unchivalrously love

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  • adverb in an unchivalrous and ungallant manner

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Examples

  • Prejean, whom Somerby unchivalrously describes as "an insignificant 21-year-old," competed as Miss California in the Miss USA beauty pageant.

    In Defense of Keith Olbermann 2009

  • All the same, I was surprised to see Mark behave so unchivalrously.

    Farthing 2006

  • Then, somewhat unchivalrously, he shoved the candelabra into her grasp and muttered, Here.

    Pirates Linda Miller 1995

  • He went on more cheerfully, telling himself unchivalrously that he had got Mary V's goat, all right.

    Skyrider B. M. Bower 1905

  • "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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power 1841

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