unmilitary

• “A person who has passed forty or fifty years of life in pursuits wholly unmilitary is suddenly metamorphosed into a full colonel or brigadier, occasionally into”

  Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia

• “It might be called unmilitary by some of the sterner characters in our service, but we believe by occasionally drawing comparisons to something real amusing -- a good joke -- you show your men that the "old Man" is really made of human stuff.”

  Military Instructors Manual

• “By comparison, many Americans were often sloppily dressed, slouching in deportment, awkward in movement, in short unmilitary.”

  VQR

• “As muddy points out, the woman's dress might have been dark blue and for all I know the active man's shirt might have been red or yellow or some other very unmilitary color.”

  For todays active man

• “No, but he left them to hang and I am sure that while these people acted in an unmilitary like fashion the CIA and Cheney's puppets created the atmosphere for their actions.”

  Cheney: Investigating CIA interrogations a political move

• “Morale Operations, a new branch started in January 1943 and staffed with a number of decidedly unmilitary journalists and artists, concocted a mixed bag of propaganda ploys.”

  Simon & Schuster: Wild Bill Donovan

• “Lord Calvert of Maryland derided his “unmilitary skill.””

  Simon & Schuster: George Washington’s First War

• “Had America relied on Washington's "cold and unmilitary conduct," Paine insisted, the commander-in-chief "would in all probability have lost America.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Feuding Fathers

• “It was “unmilitary,” he said, “subversive of all order and discipline.””

  Simon & Schuster: Robert Morris

• “When Newt stayed out till the early hours of morning as a young teenager in Orleans, France, and had to be brought home by the military police, his adopted father - wakened by the MPs - felt shamed by such an unmilitary stepson.”

  The Huffington Post: Nigel Hamilton: The Apple Doesn't Fall Far From the Tree

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