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Definition of unmaidenly in English: unmaidenlyadjective ʌnˈmeɪd(ə)nliˌənˈmeɪdnli Not befitting or characteristic of a young, sexually inexperienced woman. good, if she is shocked by my unmaidenly behaviour, she will not inquire too deeply into my motives Example sentencesExamples - Her elderly husband took a shine to her peculiar ways and allowed her to do most unmaidenly things, such as learning how to use a sword.
- Claudio cruelly accused his wife-to-be of unmaidenly behaviour, leaving her fainting at the altar.
- In the poem, goblins sell a young woman magical fruit that sickens her with passion and leads to unmaidenly acts such as licking sticky fruit juices from her sister's body.
- Pehlya clasped a hand over her mouth to hold back a very unmaidenly oath.
- Equally bucolic and perhaps even more liable to misunderstanding was the unmaidenly custom of peeping through keyholes before opening doors on Valentine's Day.
- The person thus accosting Nydia was a lady of a handsome but a bold and unmaidenly countenance: it was Julia, the daughter of Diomed.
- Her cheeks were rosy with the effort to say what she meant without seeming unmaidenly.
- Her conscious self is appalled by the sensual abandonment of her unconscious self, which she feels to be unmaidenly and un-English, and which was brought on by thoughts of the man she loves.
- Not to mention all the unmaidenly language.
- There were also the protests of her friends who said that she must on no account set forth upon an adventure so rash and so unmaidenly; observations which made her all the more eager to go.
- Manet's Olympia, one of the masterpieces of Realist painting, depicts unmistakably and shockingly a modern Parisienne… Olympia's challenging and unmaidenly stare no doubt had a great deal to do with the moral outrage which greeted the picture when it was first shown.
- Grooms often had to fight off over protective brothers because she wanted to be kidnapped, but to go willingly was considered unmaidenly.
- Curtin's sometimes unmaidenly tone is not ideal but works well most of the time.
- Her bonnet wasn't big enough to hide her face, and she feared he might think the joy it betrayed unmaidenly.
- The unmaidenly heroine of his novel is a French-American, Nicole Coche-Dury, who with her fiancé Sean visits her family in the region.
- Callisto was at the same time flattered and perplexed; still more disconcerted when the pseudo-Diana interrupted her girlish chatter with unmaidenly kisses and embraces.
- Note that we were only allowed to say that ‘Kissing Mr Carr is unmaidenly behaviour.’
- The remainder continue their unmaidenly journey in search of husbands, whom they find waiting in cheerful readiness in almost any marsh.
Derivatives noun He guessed that she loved him and he pitied her; but he could not forgive her unmaidenliness, he could not love her. Example sentencesExamples - You, father! you have driven me to unmaidenliness!
- ‘Whence this unmaidenliness?’ I queried, with due horror.
Definition of unmaidenly in US English: unmaidenlyadjectiveˌənˈmeɪdnliˌənˈmādnlē Not befitting or characteristic of a young, sexually inexperienced woman. good, if she is shocked by my unmaidenly behavior, she will not inquire too deeply into my motives Example sentencesExamples - Her elderly husband took a shine to her peculiar ways and allowed her to do most unmaidenly things, such as learning how to use a sword.
- In the poem, goblins sell a young woman magical fruit that sickens her with passion and leads to unmaidenly acts such as licking sticky fruit juices from her sister's body.
- The person thus accosting Nydia was a lady of a handsome but a bold and unmaidenly countenance: it was Julia, the daughter of Diomed.
- Her cheeks were rosy with the effort to say what she meant without seeming unmaidenly.
- Equally bucolic and perhaps even more liable to misunderstanding was the unmaidenly custom of peeping through keyholes before opening doors on Valentine's Day.
- There were also the protests of her friends who said that she must on no account set forth upon an adventure so rash and so unmaidenly; observations which made her all the more eager to go.
- Not to mention all the unmaidenly language.
- Grooms often had to fight off over protective brothers because she wanted to be kidnapped, but to go willingly was considered unmaidenly.
- The remainder continue their unmaidenly journey in search of husbands, whom they find waiting in cheerful readiness in almost any marsh.
- Claudio cruelly accused his wife-to-be of unmaidenly behaviour, leaving her fainting at the altar.
- Her conscious self is appalled by the sensual abandonment of her unconscious self, which she feels to be unmaidenly and un-English, and which was brought on by thoughts of the man she loves.
- Curtin's sometimes unmaidenly tone is not ideal but works well most of the time.
- Note that we were only allowed to say that ‘Kissing Mr Carr is unmaidenly behaviour.’
- Callisto was at the same time flattered and perplexed; still more disconcerted when the pseudo-Diana interrupted her girlish chatter with unmaidenly kisses and embraces.
- Manet's Olympia, one of the masterpieces of Realist painting, depicts unmistakably and shockingly a modern Parisienne… Olympia's challenging and unmaidenly stare no doubt had a great deal to do with the moral outrage which greeted the picture when it was first shown.
- The unmaidenly heroine of his novel is a French-American, Nicole Coche-Dury, who with her fiancé Sean visits her family in the region.
- Pehlya clasped a hand over her mouth to hold back a very unmaidenly oath.
- Her bonnet wasn't big enough to hide her face, and she feared he might think the joy it betrayed unmaidenly.
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