Example Sentences

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She is often portrayed as unmaternal but this seems inaccurate.

From Newsweek • Feb. 13, 2015

It would seem ungrateful and tactless, unmaternal and frankly unnatural to hint at feeling anything more nuanced.

From The Guardian • Jun. 29, 2013

And there is strong support from Llewella Gideon as a midwife stoically inured to serial abuse and from Louise Brealey as a deeply unmaternal obstetrician who has similarly acquired patience in dealing with insufferable patients.

From The Guardian • Jul. 1, 2012

She's also unapologetically unmaternal, a cardinal sin in an era in which every woman in power, including Hillary Clinton, lists mother or grandmother as their "most important job."

From Time • Nov. 29, 2

So, with such pain, recoils the woolly dam, Unused, affrighted, from her yeanling lamb: I, one with her in cruel fellowship, Marvel what unmaternal thing I am.

From New Poems by Thompson, Francis