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English
Adjective
unauntly (comparative more unauntly, superlative most unauntly)
- Alternative form of un-auntly
1967 December 7, Jamie Portman, “75-Year-Old Farce Kicks Up Its Heels In Skillful City Production”, in The Calgary Herald, Calgary, Alta., page 59:The “aunt” in this production is devastatingly unauntly, as alarming a specimen as one could wish for.
1982, David Lozell Martin, The Crying Heart Tattoo, New York, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, pages 311–312:I’d had several drinks and was watching her light a cigarette, inhale deeply, and blow the smoke out of her mouth and nose simultaneously—and that seemed to flatter her, the way she smoked in such an unauntly manner.
1993 [1911], Grace Livingston Hill, “Aunt Crete’s Emancipation”, in Grace Livingston Hill: Five Complete Novels in One Volume, Barbour and Company, →ISBN, page 27:Her petulant sister and the logy Luella never dreamed that Aunt Crete desired such unauntly indulgences.
2012, A. N. Wilson, The Potter’s Hand, London: Atlantic Books, →ISBN, page 345:She became aware very early that Sally had loved her nephew-by-marriage in a very unauntly way, and that in consequence, Mrs Wedgwood would have resented anyone he eventually married.