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Recent Examples of unchivalrous
The steady unraveling of first impressions requires an unchivalrous running time of 152 minutes.
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David Sims,
The Atlantic,
13 Oct. 2021
This isn't the first time Trump has been accused of unchivalrous conduct.
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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.
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Paul D. Miller,
Twin Cities,
23 Apr. 2017
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
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My arrest is unjust and arbitrary.
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Too often, caricatures are deployed to justify unfair and unjust treatment.
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Court records show that 60-year-old Bradley Kyle Martin, of Dearborn Heights, is charged with using a computer or internet to communicate with another person to commit a crime and accosting children for immoral purposes.
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These monsters—its antitheses—constitute that part of our nature that urges us to be sensible and strong, and that inclines us to see the life drive as trivial, weak, sentimental and immoral.
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The Khmer Rouge lost power in 1979, but fighting and instability continued for decades, leaving Cambodia's temples unprotected and vulnerable… easy targets for unscrupulous antiquities dealers like Douglas Latchford.
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At age 11, my favorite Broadway show was Follies – a classic preteen tale about the decay of female beauty and fading fame within an unscrupulous industry of vaudeville and burlesque.
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That doesn't enable cunning and unprincipled men to subvert the power of the people.
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Ditto his despicable aides and Cabinet members, his unprincipled sycophants and suck-ups.
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Experts link this to a lack of trust rooted in past unethical practices and concerns about data extraction.
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In another nod to Scream, Cheri Oteri parodies Courteney Cox’s Gale Weathers as the comically unethical news anchor Gail Hailstorm.
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This is an ignoble war making monsters and fools out of its participants, and against the uncontrollable weapons that are dragons, everyone’s resolve is crumbling.
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The most memorable, and notorious, moment from the race was the ignoble exit of Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell.
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In On His Own Terms, and its account of the slow-going struggles of the Rockefeller Republicans, there’s an implication that political extremism is ungentlemanly.
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To be fair, the DCEU, the preceding web of films, had nearly half of its movies land rotten scores.
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Big Red might be a braggart, a bully and rotten to the core, but Lasdun invokes Thomas De Quincey’s neat point about how a man’s capacity to rob says nothing about his propensity to murder.
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“Unchivalrous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unchivalrous. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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