unmotherly
- a word derived from motherly.
Example Sentences
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I hear Britney picked up some fairly unmotherly tips from you.
From Time Magazine Archive
MacLaine is not only actress, dancer, author, traveler, political activist, feminist, ex-wife and deliberately unmotherly mother.
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
The angry passions which raged in her breast gave an unmotherly hardness to her love of rule.
From Trevethlan: Volume 1 A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy
Why fondle vainly the fair-sounding name Of mother, when her acts are all unmotherly?
From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles
