unsoldierly

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsoldierly
Adjective
  • After years of a legal battle where both sides won key judgments, officials chalked up the apparently amiable end to new personalities at the top of each agency.
    Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • Elsewhere, organised crime still has its tendrils in many parts of the sport across the globe, and the misty-eyed reverence for benevolent local tycoons is a notion that went extinct before the Tasmanian tiger.
    Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 2 June 2025
  • Another new motif was the eye, meant to represent here an omniscient but benevolent entity that accompanies and perpetuates knowledge in an unaltered state.
    Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 27 May 2025
Adjective
  • That living arrangement produces some friction and good-natured barbs, but Sybil, as played by Lavin, always leads with love and a generous spirit.
    Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2025
  • After some good-natured interaction with the enthusiastic crowd, Cena eventually donned the mask.
    Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 June 2025
Adjective
  • In a country shackled and scarred by race, religion, gender, and class, the Disciples were genial revolutionists offering inclusion, education, and empowerment for those at the margins.
    Richard D. Mahoney, JSTOR Daily, 30 Apr. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • With its quaint, colonial-era architecture, first-class restaurants of all kinds, and a burgeoning arts and culture scene, San Miguel de Allende promises to beguile travelers with its easygoing charm at every turn.
    Kimberley Mok, Travel + Leisure, 3 June 2025
  • Coasting over the tracks was Lowe’s smoky, soulful voice, an embodiment of easygoing Californian cool—in part thanks to him being born in San Luis Obispo, California, and growing up in Los Angeles.
    Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 1 June 2025
Adjective
  • During the trial, defense attorney Brian Steel pointed to messages and moments between Diddy and Mia that painted a far more cordial, and perhaps affectionate, relationship between them.
    Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 3 June 2025
  • Sailors could mix Rose’s concoction with their rum ration, but officers required good British gin, and gin with lime cordial is a Gimlet.
    Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 31 May 2025
Adjective
  • Rigg’s voice is sharp and engrossing, her characters cunning but affable.
    Isle McElroy, Vulture, 21 May 2025
  • Pat McCarthy, a rangy, affable young visual artist who lives near the Halsey Avenue stop on the J train, in Bushwick, Brooklyn, keeps about a hundred pigeons on the roof of his building during the winter.
    Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 5 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 10 Jun. 2025.

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