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unseamanlike en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + seamanlike.

Meanings

1. Not characteristic of or befitting a seaman.
   • If he is able to keep clear only by making an unseamanlike manoeuvre, then your tack was too close. 2013, Bryan Willis, The Rules in Practice 2013-2016:
   • On behalf of the Dundee, it was deposed, that the loss of the Princess Charlotte was purely accidental, or if attributable to any mismanagement, attributable only to the unseamanlike conduct of the Princess Charlotte's own people[…] 1822, Edmund Burke, Annual Register, volume 63, page 410:

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