unmaternal

I'm biologically old enough to be Unky Dave's mother but I find him adorable in a wholly unmaternal way.

blog: Our house 2008

What's worse, Webster himself dies early on, sticking the manifestly unmaternal Vix with both a kid and a curse to deal with.

The Warslayer Edghill, Rosemary 2002

(The archaism of the word, not to speak of the unmaternal character of most of the women themselves, does not recommend it.)

The White Goddess! Vendler, Helen 1993

And how much he owed her for pointing out to him perpetually where the weaknesses lay within him-not to mention for giving him some wonderfully worldly and unmaternal advice.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

Clawa, moaned Maud, giving a jerk to the Paris doll which she held upside down by one leg in the most unmaternal manner.

An Old-Fashioned Girl 1950

And I have always been struck by the attitude of the women who have discussed it – an attitude which, judged by the conventional or Raphaelesque standard, might be described as typically unfeminine and unmaternal – since their sympathies were invariably and unreservedly on the side of the erring mother, and I cannot remember having heard a single woman's voice raised in defence of the right to its life of the unwanted child.

Marriage as a Trade 1909

Flossie never pursued her vision of Muriel Maud beyond the period of enchanting infancy; when it outgrew the tender folly of those garments, it was dismissed from Flossie's fancy with unmaternal harshness.

The Divine Fire May Sinclair 1904

For a moment David longed even for that unmaternal mother who had forgotten him in the hour of his distress; but she had been dead for many years.

A Mountain Woman Elia Wilkinson Peattie 1898

For a moment David longed even for that unmaternal mother who had forgotten him in the hour of his distress; but she had been dead for many years.

A Mountain Woman 1896

She gazed after the girl who left her, and into her eyes came a look which one must have called strangely unmaternal -- a look not tender, but hard, calculating, cold.

The Law of the Land Emerson Hough 1890