unknightly

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adjective

Not knightly.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

adjectiveunknightly (comparative more unknightly, superlative most unknightly)

comparative more unknightly · superlative most unknightly

  1. Not knightly.

    There still faintly beamed from the woman's features something of the freshness, and even the prettiness, of her youth; rendering it probable that the personal charms which Tess could boast of were in main part her mother's gift, and therefore unknightly, unhistorical.

    1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 31
  2. Of behaviour, not befitting a knight; ungallant.

Origin

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APA

unknightly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unknightly

MLA

“unknightly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unknightly. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unknightly,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unknightly.

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