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Cuthbert felt an access of zeal in his present mission in the thought that it would be displeasing to the unkingly mind of the King.

From The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot by Everett-Green, Evelyn

Come, come, show your face, Your grace's graceless, king's unkingly face.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew

He is sprawled in unkingly fashion upon his face as if the sea had spit him out in sheer nausea and disgust.

From Sermons on Biblical Characters by Chappell, Clovis G.

The reign of Charles I. came to an unkingly end.

From Sketches of the Covenanters by McFeeters, J. C.

Shocked at the naked attempt, he had recourse, for a palliation of his conduct, to an unkingly denial of the fact which made against him.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund