Definitions
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- adjective Not
maidenlike .
Etymologies
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un- + maidenlike
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Examples
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I was torn with a horrifyingly unmaidenlike desire to encourage him, even if I didn't know how to go about it at all.
Restoree McCaffrey, Anne 1967
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