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Hence the subject is seen by more sensitive types as a bit tricky and unsisterly, and one any good liberal soul should stay away from.

From The Guardian • Apr. 27, 2020

That's rather unsisterly but typical of Ford's bravado — this is not a woman who suffers from low self-esteem.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2016

It is disappointingly unsisterly perhaps – the lead characters are all women, but none of them thrives and comes into their own while their silly fellas are banged up.

From The Guardian • Mar. 15, 2013

And so began�with hoopla, bombast, some unsisterly rancor and, overall, deadly serious intentions�the largest political conference of women ever assembled in the country.

From Time Magazine Archive

Was there not with herself the curse of that unsisterly action? and not far from him, the terrible danger of the father's, the step-mother's jealousy, the mockery of those half- brothers to come?

From Greek Studies: a Series of Essays by Pater, Walter