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ungrandmotherly

ungrandmotherly adjective: not grandmotherly.

Adjective

ungrandmotherly (comparative more ungrandmotherly, superlative most ungrandmotherly)

  1. Not grandmotherly.
    • Left without a mother in his infancy—perhaps that was what prevented him from achieving the highest fame as an author—his father placed him with a grandmother, who, in a singularly ungrandmotherly way, cheated him out of the appropriations for his education.1870 June 14, “W. Gilmore Simms”, in The Galveston Daily News, number 238, Galveston, Tex., page [2], column 2
    • Here, therefore, we have Mrs Wimbush, a comely widow, with a daughter somewhat prematurely developed, on the one hand, and with a mother persistently juvenile and evergreen, on the other: Mrs Wimbush and her daughter Carry living together in Whittington Lodge, Highgate; Mrs Marrables, the youthful...1870 November 5, “Mrs Wimbush’s Revenge”, in William Chambers, Robert Chambers, editors, Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fourth series, volume VII, number 358, chapter II...

Examples of ungrandmotherly in a sentence

  • She stood with her back to the fireplace, looking very ungrandmotherly in her tailored slacks and silk sweater.2007, Linda Lael Miller, The McKettrick Way, Silhouette Books, →ISBN, page 241:
  • She had never known her grandmother, on either side, and when she was little she was a bit resentful that Theresa was such a drastically ungrandmotherly type.2017, E[mily] K[ate] Johnston, That Inevitable Victorian Thing, Dutton Books, →ISBN, page 35:

Forms of ungrandmotherly

comparativemore ungrandmotherly
superlativemost ungrandmotherly

Origin of ungrandmotherly

From un- + grandmotherly.

Questions about ungrandmotherly

What does ungrandmotherly mean?
Ungrandmotherly means not grandmotherly.
How do you use ungrandmotherly in a sentence?
She stood with her back to the fireplace, looking very ungrandmotherly in her tailored slacks and silk sweater.
What part of speech is ungrandmotherly?
Ungrandmotherly is an adjective.

Words near ungrandmotherly in the dictionary

  1. ungrammaticized
  2. ungrand
  3. ungrandfatherly
  4. ungrandiloquent
  5. ungrandiose
  6. ungrandmotherly
  7. ungrant
  8. ungrantable
  9. ungranted
  10. ungranting
  11. ungrants

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