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unqueenly

  • a word derived from queenly.
    queenly
    adjective
    belonging or proper to a queen.

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As her last shot forced an out, the new queen uttered an unqueenly "Yeeow!"

From Time Magazine Archive

He delivered a most unqueenly swat to my arm.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

Although the king expressed himself delighted with her devotion, an inner voice told him that such sensibility was unqueenly.

From On the Heights A Novel by Berthold Auerbach

See ye to her; unqueenly 'tis for me, Unheeded thus to cast away my words.

From The House of Atreus by E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson) Morshead

Consumed by torturing fires of grief The king, the world's imperial chief, His lady lying on the ground In most unqueenly posture, found.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith