unparliamentaryadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˌpɑːlᵻˈmɛnt(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˌənˌpɑrləˈmɛnt(ə)ri/, /ˌənˌpɑrləˈmɛnəri/ Not appropriate to or characteristic of parliament or parliamentary procedure; not parliamentary.
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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > dishonesty > dishonest action > [adjective]
unhonest1583
unparliamentary1626
rigged1850
society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > government by the people or their delegates > [adjective] > consonant with parliamentary system > not
unparliamentary1626
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > procedure of parliament or national assembly > [adjective] > not
unparliamentary1626
antiparliamentary1656
extra-parliamentary1897
1626 Speech Ld. Keeper Coventry in State Papers Charles I (P.R.O.: SP 16/23) f. 148 Doctor Turner, in a strange & vnparliamentary way..tooke on him to aduise the House.
1679 T. Hobbes Behemoth (unauthorized ed.) 64 All Unparliamentary raising of Money upon the Subjects.
1701 J. Swift Disc. Contests Nobles & Commons v. 58 That unparliamentary Abuse of setting Individuals upon their Shoulders, who were hated by God and Man.
1773 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 741/1 It was said on the other side, that it was unparliamentary to bring in a bill to redress a grievance, without some prior proof that the grievance existed.
1810 Sporting Mag. 35 302 The Speaker stated..that..a member had used unparliamentary language.
1876 W. S. Jevons Logic 18 A speech is unparliamentary when it does not agree with the rules of parliamentary debate.
1934 Jrnl. Negro Educ. 3 306/2 It is to be regretted that there are no minutes of the first meeting, for they would make interesting if unparliamentary reading.
2000 Business Day (S. Afr.) 27 Jan. i. 2/6 The parliamentary committee found that Maduna had been unparliamentary.
Derivatives
unparliaˈmentarily adv.
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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > dishonesty > [adverb]
falsely1303
crookedlyc1374
sinistrously1460
dishonestlya1616
unparliamentarily1660
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > procedure of parliament or national assembly > [adverb] > not
unparliamentarily1660
1660 W. Prynne Second Pt. Brief Reg. 32 Not what the Knights themselves should..ordain or order any thing without and against their wills, order and assents, as some of late most insolently and unparliamentarily have presumed to doe.
a1797 H. Walpole Mem. George II (1846) II. ii. 55 The use that had been made of the sacred name of the King, so often and so unparliamentarily.
1963 Economist 22 June 1235/2 Mr Paget did so [sc. denounced Lord Hailsham] most unparliamentarily (and unpardonably).
unparliaˈmentariness n.
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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > dishonesty > [noun]
falseshipc1230
foulnessa1470
dishonesty1600
falsity1603
unparliamentariness1628
sinisterity1629
deviousness1727
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > procedure of parliament or national assembly > [noun] > concordance with > not
unparliamentariness1628
1628 N. Rich 24 May in R. C. Johnson et al. Commons Deb. 1628 (1977) III. 606/1 A little doubt of the unparliamentariness; remember such a thing in the business of the union.
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. iv. 256 The Unparliamentariness of their Remonstrance.
1885 Sat. Rev. 23 May 687/1 (heading) The Unparliamentariness of ‘No’.
1921 Daily Herald (Biloxi, Mississippi) 25 May 2/1 (headline) Mexican Unparliamentariness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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adj.1626