The insubordination, unmilitary conduct, and recklessness of rules which force a commander into extreme caution, lest his semblance of an army should be annihilated, are not known to the persons who coolly criticise him at a distance.
All that he said to me and to others present was altogether unmilitary and inexperienced.
McClellan telegraphing for reinforcements plainly shows howunmilitary are his brains.
The coming to that point with a large force, where they would be flanked on either side by our army, we regarded as a most stupid and unmilitary act.
But we have called on the Governor of the district with Jeffs and he gave us a very fine letter to all civil and unmilitary authorities in the district calling on them to aid and protect us in every way.
For two reasons, and the unmilitaryone is that I believe in a just God.
There was an absurd change from the old uniform hat to a strange and unmilitary design.
He hailed from one of the southern states and, for a soldier, was the most ungainly, awkward and unmilitary figure that I ever saw.
Spain's inferiority--apart from deficiency of men and money--was precisely in those qualities which industrialism has bred in the unmilitary American.
No one can say that she has been unmilitary or at all deficient in those qualities which we associate with soldiers and soldiering.
Also, he saw that the minister had a most unmilitary muffler, in the shape of a lady's cloud, round his neck, which he certainly had not when he went on duty.
I was silenced so quickly that I felt that possibly I had suggested an unmilitary movement.
This victory did not surprise me; for when I saw the magnificent and to me almost innumerable array of troops on the occasion of the Promulgation, and before, I had adopted the unmilitary idea that they must be invincible.
Any National Guard or other unmilitary person found resisting in arms shall be 'treated as a traitor;' that is to say, hanged with promptitude.
He is Herzog Weimar's Minister, come with the small contingent of Weimar; to do insignificant unmilitary duty here; very irrecognizable to nearly all!
After explaining to his readers what his suggestion was, General Grant adds: "I was silenced so quickly that I felt that possibly I had suggested an unmilitary movement.
Let us make this military situation clear to the minds of unmilitary readers.
In my judgment, Master Cap, this is a very unmilitary position, and I look to some calamity befalling it, sooner or later.
Does Lord Lansdowne continue to direct the movement of reinforcements according to his own unmilitary judgment modified by that of one or more of his unmilitary colleagues?
The essentially unmilitary nature of the Americans was not to be changed.
The only exception to this prevailing unmilitary condition was to be found in the navy, where, through cruising and through actual service against the Barbary corsairs, a genuinely trained body of officers and men had been created.
It is not cause of wonder, that among such officers, the most disgraceful and unmilitary practices should frequently prevail; and that the privates should not respect them sufficiently, to acquire habits of obedience and subordination.
The early orders evidence a state of things still more loose and unmilitary than was to be inferred from the circumstances under which the war had been commenced.
This unmilitary practice was the certain index of that general insubordination which pervaded every department.
The officer is therefore badly advised who would believe that a hunch is without value, or that there is something unmilitary about the simple decision to take some positive action, even though he is working in the dark.
To vegetate in one spot is killing to the spirit of the individual who is truly fitted to play a lead part in bold enterprises, and for that reason there is something very unseemly and unmilitaryabout the officer who resists movement.
Halleck's officina of military incongruities and to unmilitary combinations ought to be shut up, and the occupants sent about the world.
All the open and secret Copperhead organs raise a shrill cry on account of what they pervert into McClellan's general Report of his unmilitary campaigns.
Forgotten one of the purest and noblest victims of Washington blindness, of General Scott's unmilitary policy and conduct.
Well, I know what a Napoleon, or any other even unmilitary sovereign, would do with both.
The ruling powers proffered to Schalk to make him captain at large, and this was proffered at a time when altogether unmilitary men became colonels, etc.
There has been something unmilitary and passive in you from the time of your passing the Schuylkill and getting possession of Philadelphia, to the close of the campaign.
Of that most unmilitary weapon it was the general's habit to explain that it was a souvenir of the peaceful days when he was a civilian.
It was certainly a most unmilitary conception: and infinitely silly, as the event proved.
This was an abandonment of the prosecutions, and in a very unmilitary way--by running away from them, and saying nothing to any body.
Their defeat was mainly due to the rash impetuosity of their young commander, to his unwise dispositions, and especially to his unmilitary conduct in leading his men into action before the formation was complete.
Schuyler was prostrate on his bed, and Montgomery was forced to unmilitary expedients because of the temper of his troops.
But he also says: "To allow the general to remain in command, and then cut off the very arm with which he was about to strike, we hold to have been inexcusable and unmilitary to the last degree.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unmilitary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: conciliatory; noncombatant; pacific; peaceable
