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Effie now had a reputation that followed her to London to the extent that the unmartial Ruskin himself was twice challenged to a duel by friends of the jewel-thief officer.

From The Guardian • Mar. 29, 2013

The absentee-prone Lebanese parliament, perhaps the world's most unmartial body, became so incensed that it took the warlike step of ending its emergency session with a wildly off-key singing of the national anthem.

From Time Magazine Archive

Many top officers, notably Bundeswehr Inspector General Friedrich Foertsch, also sport unmartial potbellies.

From Time Magazine Archive

There are also two fully staffed mental health clinics that accept the disturbed patient in a most unmartial atmosphere.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even Mr. Curran's unmartial figure was buckramed in gold and scarlet, for was not he too an officer of the Lawyer's corps, which forbade its members to wear mufti?

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis