Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not according to military rules or customs; not of a military character.
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- adjective Not
military
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not associated with soldiers or the military
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Examples
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A person who has passed forty or fifty years of life in pursuits wholly unmilitary is suddenly metamorphosed into a full colonel or brigadier, occasionally into
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It might be called unmilitary by some of the sterner characters in our service, but we believe by occasionally drawing comparisons to something real amusing -- a good joke -- you show your men that the "old Man" is really made of human stuff.
Military Instructors Manual Oliver Schoonmaker
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By comparison, many Americans were often sloppily dressed, slouching in deportment, awkward in movement, in short unmilitary.
VQR 2010
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Lord Calvert of Maryland derided his “unmilitary skill.”
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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Morale Operations, a new branch started in January 1943 and staffed with a number of decidedly unmilitary journalists and artists, concocted a mixed bag of propaganda ploys.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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As muddy points out, the woman's dress might have been dark blue and for all I know the active man's shirt might have been red or yellow or some other very unmilitary color.
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No, but he left them to hang and I am sure that while these people acted in an unmilitary like fashion the CIA and Cheney's puppets created the atmosphere for their actions.
Cheney: Investigating CIA interrogations a political move 2009
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Lord Calvert of Maryland derided his “unmilitary skill.”
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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Lord Calvert of Maryland derided his “unmilitary skill.”
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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Morale Operations, a new branch started in January 1943 and staffed with a number of decidedly unmilitary journalists and artists, concocted a mixed bag of propaganda ploys.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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