unmaidenlyadj.

1581 P. Wiburn Checke or Reproofe M. Howlets Shreeching f. 28 For her flering, mocking and such vnmaydenly vsage towards authoritie..shee was committed to Bridewel.

1634 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. Hist. New Test. (STC 12640.5) 118 The wanton gesticulations of a Virgin..could be no other then riggish, and unmaidenly.

1787 Eng. Rev. Jan. 35 His Pucelle, though possessed of many allurements, yet often disgusts by her unmaidenly impudence, and flagrant impiety.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth ii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 23 Such tokens of intimacy..are uncomely and unmaidenly.

1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton I. xv. 274 The whisperings of her womanly nature..caused her to shrink from any unmaidenly action.

1944 G. Heyer Friday's Child i. 9 Miss Milborne, aware of having been betrayed into unmaidenly behaviour, burst into tears.

2010 S. Lettmaier Broken Engagements i. 72 The..most delicate plaintiffs got the highest awards; and the unmaidenly or downright immodest the lowest.

1842 Penny Satirist 5 Feb. 2/2 If Prynne wrote a quarto volume on the ‘unloveliness of love locks’, what a monstrous size of a volume must he have written on the ‘unmaidenliness of maid-made beds’!

1879 G. Meredith Egoist II. iv. 88 You, father! you have driven me to unmaidenliness.

1980 W. M. Spackman Presence with Secrets (1982) iii. 132 Signatures too of total unmaidenliness—a Pill scotch-taped on, a chastely beribboned little lock of unambiguous curls.