military
adjective
of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy.
unmilitary
-
a word derived from
military.
Example Sentences
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When Grant came to Washington to take overall command of the Union armies in early 1864, he struck one officer as “stumpy, unmilitary, slouchy.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2016
Syverson, 55, has a Ph.D. in philosophy and looks distinctly unmilitary in an oversize flannel shirt and cargo pants.
From BusinessWeek ● Jan. 23, 2014
They arrive singly, and in unmilitary groupings of officers and enlisted men together.
From Time Magazine Archive
As played by Rutger Hauer, he is an engagingly unmilitary figure, peering nearsightedly through rimless glasses at a once comfortable world going mad and finding unsuspected resources of moral courage within him.
From Time Magazine Archive
For once more Yankee Doodle was going to town on a spanking stallion, with that forlorn feather in his cap, asking those unmilitary questions.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
