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unseamanlike

unseamanlike adjective: not characteristic of or befitting a seaman.

Adjective

unseamanlike (comparative more unseamanlike, superlative most unseamanlike)

  1. Not characteristic of or befitting a seaman.
    • On behalf of the Dundee, it was deposed, that the loss of the Princess Charlotte was purely accidental, or if attributable to any mismanagement, attributable only to the unseamanlike conduct of the Princess Charlotte's own people[…]1822, Edmund Burke, Annual Register, volume 63, page 410
    • If he is able to keep clear only by making an unseamanlike manoeuvre, then your tack was too close.2013, Bryan Willis, The Rules in Practice 2013-2016

Forms of unseamanlike

comparativemore unseamanlike
superlativemost unseamanlike

Origin of unseamanlike

From un- + seamanlike.

Questions about unseamanlike

What does unseamanlike mean?
Unseamanlike means not characteristic of or befitting a seaman.
What part of speech is unseamanlike?
Unseamanlike is an adjective.

Words near unseamanlike in the dictionary

  1. unsealers
  2. unsealing
  3. unsealings
  4. unseals
  5. unseam
  6. unseamanlike
  7. unseamanly
  8. unseamanship
  9. unseamed
  10. unseaming
  11. unseams

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