unsoldierly

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsoldierly
Adjective
  • The performances were too amiable and not particularly satirical (much like the real-life Harris’s own appearance on the show).
    Dave Itzkoff, New York Times, 19 May 2025
  • There's a little sprinkled throughout, but these all-stars are by and large gracious and amiable.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • New Delhi and Islamabad found a way to de-escalate, stop the fighting and move toward a future that will hopefully be more benevolent than the past.
    Daniel DePetris, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2025
  • Their expensive quest is financially backed by a seemingly benevolent billionaire Owen Carver (Domhnall Gleeson), who has his own reasons for helping Luke and Charlotte.
    Eric Andersson, People.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Business leaders should consistently acknowledge their most talented, productive, and good-natured employees.
    Mark LaSota, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
  • Although famously good-natured and avuncular, unlike the mercurial genius that is the movie’s subject, Linklater is in many ways just the right Austin dude to take on the French New Wave’s revolutionary spirit of cinematic invention.
    Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2025
Adjective
  • George Wendt, the actor known for playing the genial, beer-guzzling barfly Norm Peterson on all 11 seasons of the classic sitcom Cheers, died Tuesday at 76.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 20 May 2025
  • In the aftermath of Radford’s breakthrough, OpenAI’s leadership—especially the genial Altman and his co-founder and chief scientist, the faintly shamanistic Ilya Sutskever—made a series of pivotal decisions.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
Adjective
  • Their easygoing personality, however, should not be mistaken for low energy.
    Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 May 2025
  • Why Try It: If Amrut Fusion is India’s statement whisky, Paul John Brilliance is its easygoing charmer.
    Emily Price, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
Adjective
  • In other news: The prosecutors and defense lawyers seemed to have a cordial rapport during pretrial hearings.
    Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 15 May 2025
  • One recent standout cocktail included the Venado, made with Mexican white rum infused with Mayan oregano, a lime-salvia cordial, Lillet Blanc, lime soda, hoja santa and cacao.
    Kevin Gray, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
Adjective
  • His affable demeanor, a velvety game show voice and whip-smart replies garnered him loads of fans during the show’s run, which started on Discovery Channel (2005-2012) before moving to Bravo for a recent reboot.
    Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2025
  • Jimmy, the longtime head salesman, administers the front desk with an expert, affable approach.
    Shauna Lyon, New Yorker, 9 May 2025
Adjective
  • Highly personable and ingratiating but with a tough core, Walters withstood critiques about the softness of her interrogatory style with celebrities and sometimes major political figures as well.
    Carmel Dagan, Variety, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Smith’s tone was self-conscious and ingratiating—at times, obsequious.
    Sam Adler-Bell, The New Republic, 7 Mar. 2022
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“Unsoldierly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsoldierly. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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