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unprincessly

unprincessly adjective: not princessly.

Adjective

unprincessly (comparative more unprincessly, superlative most unprincessly)

  1. Not princessly.
    • She not only will never permit any one to touch her hair, which she always dresses and arranges herself, according to her own particular notions of grace and beauty, a thing which, I venture to think, and may perhaps suggest, is very unladylike, not to say unprincessly, savouring of plebeian...1849, Mary Cowden Clarke, “The Sequel of the Wreck.—Uberto and Biondello; the Little Barber; King Imbecilio, Princess Eudora, and Lord Ignorio; Baron Feroccio, and the Lady Ellena.”, in Kit Bam’s...
    • Some of the papers, with questionable taste, present Mrs. [Alice Roosevelt] Longworth to their readers as the American “Princess.” There is nothing in her ways, bearing, or appearance to warrant the epithet which I give, as printed, in inverted commas. Her natural, unconstrained, yet lady-like...1906 July 11, Truth: A Weekly Journal, volume LX, number 1541, London: “Truth” Buildings, […], published 1907, page 88, column 1

Examples of unprincessly in a sentence

  • She has chic, which, too, is unprincessly.1906 July 11, Truth: A Weekly Journal, volume LX, number 1541, London: “Truth” Buildings, […], published 1907, page 88, column 1:
  • Switching from crying to laughing, Gabriella snorted—the most unprincessly sound she had ever made.2017, Vivian Vande Velde, The Princess Imposter, New York, N.Y.: Scholastic Press, →ISBN, page 84:

Synonyms of unprincessly

Forms of unprincessly

comparativemore unprincessly
superlativemost unprincessly

Origin of unprincessly

From un- + princessly.

Questions about unprincessly

What does unprincessly mean?
Unprincessly means not princessly.
How do you use unprincessly in a sentence?
She has chic, which, too, is unprincessly.
What part of speech is unprincessly?
Unprincessly is an adjective.

Words near unprincessly in the dictionary

  1. unprinced
  2. unprincelike
  3. unprinceliness
  4. unprincely
  5. unprincesslike
  6. unprincessly
  7. unprincessy
  8. unprincipal
  9. unprinciple
  10. unprincipled
  11. unprincipledly

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