unmilitary circles of government. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : from civilian to military life. ,military preparedness. ,a military bearing. ,a military career. ,military duty. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : the bar, the press, and the military. From Dictionary.com.
By comparison, many Americans were often sloppily dressed, slouching in deportment, awkward in movement, in short unmilitary. From Wordnik.com. [VQR] Reference
Canadians consider themselves an unmilitary people. From Wordnik.com. [NATO: The Continuing Challenge] Reference
It was very unmilitary, but the General said nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Battling the Clouds or, For a Comrade's Honor] Reference
It was the most unmilitary installation I'd ever seen. From Wordnik.com. [Passage at Arms]
This was aggravatingly unreasonable and utterly unmilitary. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference
"Most unmilitary-looking uniform I ever saw on a space officer.". From Wordnik.com. [Next Door, Next World] Reference
They were a motley, deliberately unmilitary-looking bunch of young men. From Wordnik.com. [The Desert One Debacle] Reference
The essentially unmilitary nature of the Americans was not to be changed. From Wordnik.com. [The Wars Between England and America] Reference
The scouts were wild and unmilitary, but highly efficient and trustworthy. From Wordnik.com. [THE AMERICAN WEST] Reference
The highly unmilitary form of address made Baldur Sikerman give a second start. From Wordnik.com. [Blazing Sun]
A retired Marine once told me that I was the most unmilitary person he'd ever met. From Wordnik.com. [Rocket Jones: About Ted Archives] Reference
It seems so unmilitary to go for a fashion craze. posted by Ann Althouse at 7:05 PM. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference
"Yeah, I hear what you're asking for, Major," said Roadkill with a most unmilitary shrug. From Wordnik.com. [Phule me twice]
The Americans found the scouts wild and unmilitary, but also highly efficient and trustworthy. From Wordnik.com. [THE AMERICAN WEST] Reference
Lewis was an Australian, long, thin and sinuous, his supple body lounging in unmilitary curves. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
All Germans had ridiculed the idea that an unmilitary nation like America could produce a large army. From Wordnik.com. [Castles of Steel]
University and a group of about 12 of us was taken there on a most unmilitary vehicle, a soft drinks lorry. From Wordnik.com. [Coming of Age: 1939-1946] Reference
Gossip is to be avoided because it is vicious, self-destructive, unmanly, unmilitary and, most of the time, untrue. From Wordnik.com. [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference
It was a crude, unmilitary host, strong only as a body of volunteers determined to resist an invasion of their soil. From Wordnik.com. [The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn] Reference
But there's more and more evidence accumulating that something very unusual and something very unmilitary took place. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 11, 2006] Reference
The whole thing was horribly unmilitary by any standards, but it was typical of Boss 'line-of-least-resistance nature. From Wordnik.com. [Natives of Space]
Under him, Early had able brigade commanders with the possible exception of the valiant but unmilitary Extra Billy Smith. From Wordnik.com. [Lee’s Lieutenants] Reference
And the reason he wanted to be in the military was that he wanted to protect the right of his friends to be so unmilitary. From Wordnik.com. [Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point] Reference
Young Augereau never reappeared, but, after a bit, Scull heard a tread in the hallway, a hesitant and rather unmilitary tread. From Wordnik.com. [Comanche Moon] Reference
He had a tendency to daydream which was most engaging and blissfully unmilitary, and his mind was tremulous with tender mischief. From Wordnik.com. [An Autobiography]
Falstaff's famous corps, whose appearance was so unmilitary as to prevent even that liberal-minded gentleman from marching through. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
All his generals declared the plan he proposed unmilitary and impossible, but after several unsuccessful attempts the Gibraltar of the. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
Washington's "cold, unmilitary conduct" during the War of Independence, and accused his administration, since the new constitution, of. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859] Reference
“I must ask someone who knows,” he thought, and addressed an officer who was looking with curiosity at his huge unmilitary figure. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
To jump and skip like rabbits is unmilitary and unsoldierlike. From Wordnik.com. [Boyhood in Norway] Reference
They strike an unmilitary man as a very efficient body of troops. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
He stopped short and his jaw dropped in a most unmilitary fashion. From Wordnik.com. [The Hollow of Her Hand] Reference
"Getting rattled is a highly unmilitary form of conduct," retorted. From Wordnik.com. [Uncle Sam's Boys as Lieutenants or, Serving Old Glory as Line Officers] Reference
I will bite off this unmilitary tongue o 'mine and feed it to your horse. From Wordnik.com. [The Hidden Children] Reference
"You damned unmilitary rascals, do you mean to open fire on 'em with vegetables?". From Wordnik.com. [The Hidden Children] Reference
I was silenced so quickly that I felt that possibly I had suggested an unmilitary movement. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant — Complete] Reference
At this period, the unmilitary youth of England were not affectionately coddled by their friends. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Planet] Reference
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