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单词 unchivalrous
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Definition of unchivalrous in English:

unchivalrous

adjectiveʌnˈʃɪv(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

  • unchivalrously

  • 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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