unmilitary

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ military

Adjective[edit]

unmilitary (comparative more unmilitary, superlative most unmilitary)

  1. Not military.
    • 1860, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons, page 72:
      The Indian military system is full of unmilitary anomalies, all productive of irresponsibility and undiscipline.
    • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
      National Guards and Soldiers of the line […] fall into disorderly street-processions, constitutional unmilitary exclamations and hurrahings.
    • 2000, Beth Cohen, Not the Classical Ideal:
      Tragedy developed affinities with civic ideals of restraint, manly control, and heroic discipline, but comedy, and in particular the comic body, developed affinities with anticivic excess, sexual abandon, and unmilitary, antiathletic slackness.
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