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unprincessly en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + princessly.

Meanings

1. Not princessly.
   • Switching from crying to laughing, Gabriella snorted—the most unprincessly sound she had ever made. 2017, Vivian Vande Velde, The Princess Imposter, New York, N.Y.: Scholastic Press, →ISBN, page 84:
   • Some of the papers, with questionable taste, present Mrs. [Alice Roosevelt] Longworth to their readers as the American “Princess.” There is nothing in her ways, bearing, or appearance to warrant the epithet which I give, as printed, in inverted commas. Her natural, unconstrained, yet lady-like, manners are the opposite of princessly. She has chic, which, too, is unprincessly. Most princesses are shy when they find themselves with ordinary people. 1906 July 11, Truth: A Weekly Journal, volume LX, number 1541, London: “Truth” Buildings, […], published 1907, page 88, column 1:
   • She not only will never permit any one to touch her hair, which she always dresses and arranges herself, according to her own particular notions of grace and beauty, a thing which, I venture to think, and may perhaps suggest, is very unladylike, not to say unprincessly, savouring of plebeian independence, and low, artist-like individuality of taste, wholly unbecoming her distinguished rank and station;—[…] 1849, Mary Cowden Clarke, “The Sequel of the Wreck.—Uberto and Biondello; the Little Barber; King Imbecilio, Princess Eudora, and Lord Ignorio; Baron Feroccio, and the Lady Ellena.”, in Kit Bam’s Adventures; or, The Yarns of an Old Mariner, London: Grant and Griffith, […], page 140:

Forms

Synonyms

unprincesslike · unprincessy