fraternal
adjective
of or befitting a brother or brothers; brotherly.
unfraternal
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a word derived from
fraternal.
Example Sentences
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The authorities in East Berlin even took the unfraternal step of banning Soviet publications that carried "distorted portrayals of history."
From Time Magazine Archive
He at first demurred to their departure except all together—it was so unfraternal; but eventually he allowed himself to be persuaded out of it and into his clothes.
From The Three Partners by Bret Harte
What palliation can he offer for his unfraternal conduct in thus dragging his own brother into the courts of this land in a mad effort to recover the paltry sum of thirty thousand pounds?
From Toppleton's Client or, A Spirit in Exile by John Kendrick Bangs
The thing which is really undemocratic and unfraternal is to say, as so many modern humanitarians say, "Of course one must make allowances for those on a lower plane."
From Heretics by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Eat your dinner," she said in an unfraternal maner, "and stop watching me.
From Bab: a Sub-Deb by Mary Roberts Rinehart
