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Example sentences for "unparliamentary"

Lexicographically close words:
unparalleled; unparallelled; unpardonable; unpardonably; unpardoned; unpassable; unpatriotic; unpaved; unpeace; unpenetrated
  1. But, to speak plainly, these expressions were unparliamentary and unconstitutional.

  2. It was rather an unparliamentary way of doing things, but it proved effective, and at length quiet reigned.

  3. Mr. Pulteney observed, that having resigned his place, he might no w act with the freedom becoming an Englishman: he declared against the manner of granting the supply, as unparliamentary and unprecedented.

  4. When a member uses unparliamentary language, or makes a personal attack upon an opponent, the Speaker must summon his most persuasive powers to induce the culprit to withdraw the offensive words.

  5. In 1834 Lord Althorp and Sheil were locked up by the Sergeant-at-Arms, by order of the Speaker, until they had apologised to the House and one another for the use of unparliamentary language.

  6. The Speaker, however, does not appear to have thought it necessary to call upon the member for Coventry to withdraw his fierce and unparliamentary expression.

  7. Mildmay complained to the House that the member for Coventry "looked very fiercely upon him when he spoke, and that it was done in an unparliamentary way.

  8. In France, unparliamentary government was prolonged by the victory of the crown for a century and three-quarters.

  9. He was brought up sharply when he began to kick against the Presbyterian pricks of Scotland; and the expenses of the Bishops' War put an end to the hand-to-mouth existence of his unparliamentary government in England.

  10. I regret to say that his language was unparliamentary in the extreme.

  11. Such an unparliamentary reference to Mr. Clay, a member of a different House, could not pass without reply in a place where he could not speak for himself, but where his friends were abundant.

  12. This produced, of course, a very marked difference between the greater and the lesser or unparliamentary barons.

  13. But the statute that abolished all unparliamentary taxation led, at least in theoretical principle, to extend the elective franchise to as large a mass of the people as could conveniently exercise it.

  14. Under the Lancastrian kings there is much less appearance of raising money in an unparliamentary course.

  15. Sir Harry Vane and Peter Wentworth ventured to call him to order, declaring that that was strange and unparliamentary language from a servant of the House, and one that they had so much honoured.

  16. The plain and simple words by which such an accusation might naturally be refuted would be unparliamentary; but it would not be unparliamentary to say that it was reckless, unfounded, absurd, monstrous, and incredible.

  17. It was said to be most unparliamentary to pass a bill one week, and the next week to pass a resolution condemning that bill.

  18. There was a good deal of unparliamentary language, expressed in tones both loud and deep.


  19. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unparliamentary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.