unchivalrous

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Recent Examples of unchivalrous The steady unraveling of first impressions requires an unchivalrous running time of 152 minutes. David Sims, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2021 This isn't the first time Trump has been accused of unchivalrous conduct. Stacey Leasca, Glamour, 16 Jan. 2018 They were also viewed as ungentlemanly, a form of unchivalrous cheating – a special kind of insult for professional soldiers. Paul D. Miller, Twin Cities, 23 Apr. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unchivalrous
Adjective
  • The lawsuit accuses Facebook's parent company, Meta, of negligence and breach of contract after continuously deactiving his commercial account for unjust and improper reasons.
    John Tufts, IndyStar, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Which land’s unjust deeds does one examine?
    Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Ladapo said the decision was not reached according to the data, but instead on his view that vaccine mandates are immoral and outside the scope of the government’s authority.
    Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Even the paper’s biggest triumph—which, without giving too much away, brings it into direct conflict with its toilet-paper stablemate—involves a farcically immoral compromise that tramples the church-state divide between news and product sales (and, worse, isn’t all that funny).
    Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • There are also parallels with the seemingly unscrupulous corporate CEOs.
    Ed Meza, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
  • In the eighth season of Rick and Morty, our unscrupulous genius and his teenage companion get into lots more scraps featuring virtual realities, the Easter Bunny, and an entire planet full of their clones.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Antoni is that rarity who has drawn harsh criticism from economists on the right as well as the mainstream for being ignorant, unprincipled, and incompetent.
    Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 21 Aug. 2025
  • She is utterly disillusioned with the ugly transformations of leftist leaders, such as Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua and Evo Morales of Bolivia, into unprincipled strongmen.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The Hulu miniseries Dopesick (2021), chronicling Purdue Pharma’s role in the opioid crisis, highlights the catastrophic consequences of unethical persuasion.
    Adrian Dearnell, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • At a press conference in Tampa, Ladapo called vaccine mandates unethical.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • This is an ignoble plan that cites dubious science while elevating the entertainment of a handful of hunters over the revulsion of most Floridians.
    Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 July 2025
  • My focus is down to the ignoble little health annoyances that seem to cap and even eclipse a major setback.
    John Updike, New Yorker, 11 July 2025
Adjective
  • However, much of Keaton’s dialogue comes at such a fast clip, his ungentlemanly implications may go over young audience members’ heads.
    Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 5 Sep. 2024
  • None too pleased to see the guys fighting in such an ungentlemanly manner outside his shop, the all-too-proper proprietor, Christof (Warburton), appears at the door wearing a tweed vest, bowtie and old-timey flat cap.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 31 July 2024
Adjective
  • Horrible Bosses When three friends — played by Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis — regroup after a terrible day at their respective jobs, the fed-up employees drunkenly conspire to murder their seriously rotten employers and attempt to follow through.
    James Mercadante, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
  • He was once asked to accept a dead whale; another time, an entire shipping container of rotten garlic.
    Kyra Morris, The Atlantic, 22 Aug. 2025

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“Unchivalrous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unchivalrous. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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