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  • adjective Not loverlike.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ loverlike

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Examples

  • Actually, a pigheaded nincompoop was what he called her, in distinctly unloverlike tones.

    LADY of SKYE PATRICIA CABOT 2001

  • But he remained annoyingly unloverlike and, worst of all, seemed to see through all her maneuverings to bring him to his knees.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • But he remained annoyingly unloverlike and, worst of all, seemed to see through all her maneuverings to bring him to his knees.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • But he remained annoyingly unloverlike and, worst of all, seemed to see through all her maneuverings to bring him to his knees.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • But he remained annoyingly unloverlike and, worst of all, seemed to see through all her maneuverings to bring him to his knees.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • But he remained annoyingly unloverlike and, worst of all, seemed to see through all her maneuverings to bring him to his knees.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • John Arthur was more bland and smiling than Madeline had ever before known him, while as for old Amos, he nearly lost himself in a maze of grins and chuckles, but displayed a very unloverlike appetite, nevertheless, and divided his attention pretty evenly between the beautiful face of Madeline, and the viands on the table.

    Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter Lawrence L. Lynch

  • Doctor Eben did not know that he was in many small ways an unloverlike husband.

    Hetty's Strange History Anonymous

  • It would have been difficult to imagine a more unloverlike attitude.

    Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters 1916

  • In all he said, now that matters were arranged he was calm, practical, and unloverlike, and for all that she would he had been less self-possessed, her faith in him caused her, upon reflection, even to admire this which she conceived to be restraint.

    The Tavern Knight Rafael Sabatini 1912

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