unsoldierly

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsoldierly
Adjective
  • Thanks to amiable year-round weather apart from the heat, some choose to live part-time (or full-time) on their boats.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 12 Aug. 2025
  • That would be Britain Covey, an amiable, 5-foot-8 wide receiver and punt returner who’s so diminutive that he’s been denied entry into players’ parking lots in the past and recently was mistaken for a member of the Rams’ front office.
    Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 5 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • CEOs take on all sorts of personas, from the benevolent leader to the cutthroat business executive.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Its land is farmed communally, and its lord, Master Kent (Harry Melling), is a benevolent soul who prefers coaxing and rewarding to ordering and punishing.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Bregman hinted that the boos were expected and overall good-natured.
    Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Someone might say it about others in good-natured talk or themselves as a self-deprecating compliment.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 12 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The staff is almost entirely local, including K Club veteran Alexander de Souza, a genial presence with a jaunty earring who’ll whip up a lethal rum punch for a sundowner, and another staffer who brings a fruit plate every morning at breakfast.
    Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Her father, an engineer, was genial and funny, and friends were always dropping by.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • So her trip to the past should be a very easygoing, chill time.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Schmitt is easygoing inside the Capitol and a swaggering culture warrior outside of it.
    Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • This triumphant greeting was followed by multiple friendly handshakes, a cordial pat or two on the arm, and a companionable stride past an enfilade of American F-22 fighter jets at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.
    Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Remaining cordial after, especially when there are children in common, is a great challenge.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Theo was funny, cool, affable, confident around adults, often charmingly sneaky, a bit of a trickster.
    Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 27 July 2025
  • Luis Guzmán as Gomez Addams Guzmán portrays Morticia's husband and the affable Addams family patriarch in the Netflix series.
    Karli Bendlin, People.com, 7 Aug. 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 22 Aug. 2025.

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