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Definition of unchivalrous in English: unchivalrousadjectiveʌnˈʃɪv(ə)lrəs (of a man or his behaviour) discourteous, especially towards women. Example sentencesExamples - Unsurprisingly, Mr Manners took to blundering into my flat at 3.30 am in a most unchivalrous manner: blind drunk, ranting that his mother didn't love him.
- Americans have largely ignored the tell-all books by unchivalrous butlers, bodyguards, and companions.
- Tore, who it was previously thought was always a gentleman, did the unchivalrous thing and prevailed on count back over that Finnish Femme Fatale, Tarja Kankianen.
- When a 60-year-old woman becomes entangled in her hurdles, it seems somehow unchivalrous to watch.
- He opposed violence against women, because it was unchivalrous toward what he called the ‘weaker sex’.
- The real Turpin it seems was just as different, an unattractive, unchivalrous and brutal thief who raped and murdered.
- Undoubtedly the behaviour of the sergeant was unchivalrous and unbecoming of the office he occupies.
- However, the sassy, unchivalrous character built over the long years of struggle seems to have weakened the DPP's ability to adapt to its new role as a ruling party.
- The fights that killed Mercutio, Tybalt and Paris were short and brutal, Romeo's part in them reduced to swift and unchivalrous dagger thrusts.
- The boys continued the unchivalrous behavior as they left Lyn only the welfare line to stand in as Sunny took third.
- He responded with some deeply unchivalrous remarks about her age.
- He would never be so unchivalrous, but I didn't get the impression he had chosen the timing.
- So, on behalf of our unchivalrous chav: apologies to the American chanteuse.
- This is not to imply that Hydrogen Guy was being unchivalrous, letting Helium Girl handle all the hard work of mopping the parking lot with a pair of muscled thugs.
- I'm not a big royal fan by any manner or means, I just dislike unchivalrous acts more.
- He reported rumors that they suffered artillery attacks with chains and railroad iron, projectiles he thought distinctly unchivalrous.
- Ramsay responded with unchivalrous remarks about Maschler's age, but she nonetheless has given his new venture a rave review.
- In one dream world he stood, surrounded by either semi conscious or woefully unchivalrous government officers in a smoky, gutted building.
Synonyms ill-mannered, bad-mannered, impolite, discourteous, impertinent, insolent, impudent, cheeky, audacious, presumptuous, uncivil, disrespectful, unmannerly, ill-bred, churlish, crass, curt, brusque, blunt, ungracious, graceless, brash, unpleasant, disagreeable, offhand, short, sharp
Derivatives adverb In fact, he was renowned for spending more times in the air than being at home sorting domestic problems, which he unchivalrously has now handed over to his successor. Example sentencesExamples - Also, the duellist in barely saluting his opponent and attacking with two weapons acted unchivalrously.
- Like Flaubert, Daudet was a syphilitic, boasting unchivalrously that he'd caught the disease from ‘a lady from the top drawer’.
- Meanwhile, colleges were expanding the elective system and allowing the substitution of modern for classical languages, developments which Babbitt unchivalrously blames on the rising numbers of female undergraduates.
- There was one seat left which was taken, rather unchivalrously, by Russell, leaving Meg on the floor at his feet.
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