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unschoolmarmish

unschoolmarmish adjective: not schoolmarmish.

Adjective

unschoolmarmish (comparative more unschoolmarmish, superlative most unschoolmarmish)

  1. Not schoolmarmish.
    • A young man on Minnesota Street and one of the lady teachers in one of the public schools not far from Cass Avenue, having concluded that a consolidation of their joys and sorrows would lead to their mutual advantage, resolved that upon the 17th day of July, 1878, at 8 o’clock in the evening, they...1878 July 27, “A Marriage that Didn’t Come Off”, in The Iola Register, volume XII, number 31, Iola, Kan., front page, column 6
    • So now, stimulated by some further experience with that world which does not care a tinker's damn whether a verb agrees with its subject in number and person or not, she permitted the taxicab to jounce her smile out of all semblance to anything calmly superior and into a very unschoolmarmish grin.1921, Harvey Wickham, “Introducing the Garden of Eden”, in The Clue of the Primrose Petal, New York, N.Y.: Edward J. Clode, page 9

Examples of unschoolmarmish in a sentence

  • He is attracted to an unschoolmarmish schoolmistress, but cannot settle down to Ireland.1938 April 29, John Brophy, “Books of the Day: New Fiction: Three Irish Novels”, in The Daily Telegraph and Morning Post, number 25,868...
  • Many times she added her apt, unschoolmarmish comments to impromptu discussions.1939, Anecho: The Yearly Publication of the Provincial Normal School, Victoria, B.C., page 6:
  • “Drat the terms!” replied Durie with unschoolmarmish vigor.1947, Samuel Hopkins Adams, chapter 27, in Banner by the Wayside, New York, N.Y.: Random House, page 288:
  • As Florence Phillips, the unschoolmarmish principal said to me, ‘It’s exciting to be in at the beginning of something and to have a hand in its creation.’1957, Ritchie Calder, Men Against the Frozen North, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd; Toronto, Ont.: Thomas Nelson & Sons (Canada) Ltd...

Forms of unschoolmarmish

comparativemore unschoolmarmish
superlativemost unschoolmarmish

Origin of unschoolmarmish

From un- + schoolmarmish.

Questions about unschoolmarmish

What does unschoolmarmish mean?
Unschoolmarmish means not schoolmarmish.
How do you use unschoolmarmish in a sentence?
He is attracted to an unschoolmarmish schoolmistress, but cannot settle down to Ireland.
What part of speech is unschoolmarmish?
Unschoolmarmish is an adjective.

Words near unschoolmarmish in the dictionary

  1. unscholastick
  2. unschool
  3. unschooled
  4. unschooledness
  5. unschooling
  6. unschoolmarmish
  7. unschools
  8. unscience
  9. unscienced
  10. unsciences
  11. unscientific

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