unauntly

comparative more unauntly · superlative most unauntly

1. alternativeAlternative form of un-auntly.

   Her petulant sister and the logy Luella never dreamed that Aunt Crete desired such unauntly indulgences.

   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

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   The “aunt” in this production is devastatingly unauntly, as alarming a specimen as one could wish for.

   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

   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.

   1982, David Lozell Martin, The Crying Heart Tattoo, New York, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, pages 311–312

   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.

   2012, A. N. Wilson, The Potter’s Hand, London: Atlantic Books, →ISBN, page 345