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Example sentences for "unsoldierly"

Lexicographically close words:
unsocial; unsoftened; unsoiled; unsold; unsoldierlike; unsolicited; unsolvable; unsolved; unsophisticated; unsophistication
  1. He made his head-quarters at old Tappan, and there lay in a state of such unsoldierly insecurity, that Cornwallis was led to form a plan for taking his whole corps by surprise.

  2. They came straggling back yesterday from the top of Cheat unofficered, and in the most unsoldierly manner.

  3. Then I explained to them how the soldier had violated orders, which I was bound by my oath to enforce; how, when I undertook to remonstrate kindly against such unsoldierly conduct, he had insulted and defied me.

  4. The boys being again disappointed in not finding the enemy, and considerably under the influence of liquor, conducted themselves in a most disorderly and unsoldierly way.

  5. But General Stevens emphatically assured them that they must remain and do their duty as soldiers during the campaign, and took no further notice of their insubordinate and unsoldierly action.

  6. Sigel, too, may be censured for his importunate and unsoldierly demands for aid which so frittered away the weight of the right wing.

  7. The parade uniform has been designed by a lot of unsoldierly politicians and tailors about Washington.

  8. They have made the patient United States army a victim of their vulgar designs, and to-day at every European army maneuver one can pick out the American military attache by merely pointing to the most unsoldierly uniform on the field.

  9. Evidently acting under orders, the men broke their platoons and closed in around us; and I was well convinced that this unsoldierly marching was adopted to the end that El Sabio might not be seen.

  10. Being himself a thorough soldier, he perceived the danger to which the unsoldierly lack of vigilance on the part of the Tlahuicos exposed our camp; but the situation was such that he was powerless to take effective measures for our protection.

  11. Burnside's unsoldierly blundering is compared to the great victorious splendors of Asperm, Esslingen, Wagram, and the tyrant-crushing three days of immortal Waterloo!

  12. And then my rescuers, or else my newer captors, picked me up hastily; and I was hoisted behind the saddle of the nearest, and so was borne away in all the hue and cry of a most unsoldierly retreat.

  13. You may wager Jennifer House against an acre of the Cowpens that Lord Charles will do no such unsoldierly thing.

  14. Presently, finding, from their gaiety and frolicksomeness, what they had been after, I ordered a halt, and set myself to harangue them for such unsoldierly conduct.

  15. The occasion seemed to demand resignation, but that would have been unsoldierly conduct.


  16. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unsoldierly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    heartless; spiritless; ungallant