Example Sentences

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MacLaine is not only actress, dancer, author, traveler, political activist, feminist, ex-wife and deliberately unmotherly mother.

From Time Magazine Archive

I hear Britney picked up some fairly unmotherly tips from you.

From Time Magazine Archive

As sure as I knew Cecile was crazy and unmotherly, I knew I must stop Fern.

From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia

Then she came and sat with them on the seat under the big cedar and talked with them in a wrap that was pretty rather than prudish and entirely unmotherly.

From The Research Magnificent by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

And again solemnly interrogated, declares, that she would have been drawn with wild horses, rather than have touched the bairn with an unmotherly hand.

From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 by Scott, Walter, Sir