unnautical
- a word derived from nautical.
Example Sentences
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But Sir Andrew is opposed to an alien thing, an unnautical, ugly contraption: the airplane.
From Time Magazine Archive
In his first public appearance at the China Station he held a full-dress parade at Hong Kong race track seated on a handsome brown horse, clanking unnautical golden spurs.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus, a Sea Sled salesman, addressing an unnautical prospect, explained the mooring of the boat by remarking: "You just put a rope on here and tow her right into the garage."
From Time Magazine Archive
She looked down, as if rather embarrassed, and dug at the interstices of the rough stone pavement with her dainty, and altogether unnautical, sunshade.
From Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden by Garvice, Charles
In the gloaming the side-lights were being put in place, and Gadabout turned a baleful green eye upon us, as though overhearing our talk of such unnautical things as gardens and heirlooms and ancestral halls.
From Virginia: the Old Dominion by Hutchins, Frank W.
