The men of the Falaba quickly entered the boats, although the launching took place in an unseamanlike manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference

We kept Mnemosyne for over two months, and never once did she misconduct herself or behave in an unseamanlike manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 26, 1917] Reference

I forbear to dwell upon this exhibition of human weakness, for almost any one in Jason's shoes would have been equally regardless of the regulations, and in consequence proportionally unseamanlike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873] Reference

The danger of the fire-ship took such hold on people's minds that it was with great toil and difficulty they were persuaded to venture on the face of the waters in such dangerous and unseamanlike craft.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects] Reference

There didn't seem to be much to peer at -- a tiny pinpoint of light shining through the glass top of the plot and a squared sheet of chart paper marked by a most unseamanlike series of wavering black lines traced out by a man with a pencil following the track of the tiny moving light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ice Station Zebra]

They came swarming downstream, transports filled with palace servants and slaves and all their accoutrements and paraphernalia, barges laden with oxen and goats and chickens for the kitchens, gilded and gaily painted vessels bearing cargoes of palace furniture and treasure, of nobles and lesser creatures, all uncomfortably jumbled together in a most unseamanlike fashion.    From Wordnik.com.  [River God]

Chinese steward deplore as unseamanlike and perilous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 39] Reference

Paul that their strange, unseamanlike costume would at once betray them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Gerrard The Cabin Boy] Reference

It was three in the morning when his unseamanlike conduct precipitated the catastrophe.    From Wordnik.com.  [When God Laughs: and other stories] Reference

You may shirk your work, or perform it in a slovenly, unseamanlike manner as long as you please, but.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rover's Secret A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba] Reference

Captain Kjellin, coming up on the bridge during Matt's watch, found the latter doing the most unseamanlike thing imaginable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley] Reference

This, with much unseamanlike performance, we did, and likewise we cleared the anchor chain, of which we let out about three hundred feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Raid On The Oyster Pirates] Reference

But the only officer was a bareheaded, boyish lieutenant, and the rowers were an athletic but unseamanlike crew of mingled artillerymen and infantry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sally Dows] Reference

This was owing to the unseamanlike mode in which the cargo had been stowed: indeed, a ship of war was not calculated to carry a cargo at all, in addition to her own stores, water and ammunition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hurricane Hurry] Reference

Seeing that when the ship was to be put about the square sail had to be lowered, brought aft round the mast and rehoisted on the other board, the unhandiness of the thing was terribly unseamanlike.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sea Queen's Sailing] Reference

A few days before, a tempest-struck vessel had appeared off the town: the hull was parched-looking and cracked, the sails rent, and bent in a careless, unseamanlike manner, the shrouds tangled and broken.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Man] Reference

'During the night, Radney had an unseamanlike way of sitting on the bulwarks of the quarter-deck, and leaning his arm upon the gunwale of the boat which was hoisted up there, a little above the ship's side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moby-Dick, or, The Whale] Reference

His levity of manner, and sanguine assurance, coupled with the constant sight of his most unseamanlike person -- more suited to the Queen's drawing-room than a ship's forecastle-bred many misgivings in my mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Redburn. His First Voyage] Reference

Hornblower dived over the barricade and gripped the futtock shrouds; not for him was the easy descent through the lubber's hole, not when the first lieutenant might see him and reprimand him for unseamanlike behaviour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Midshipman Easy]

Despite the anxiety and suspense of the moment I could not help remarking to myself that, if they intended to carry us by boarding, the commander of the galley was conning his craft in a very lubberly, unseamanlike way.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Log of a Privateersman] Reference

The transfer of their cargo was a work of more difficulty, partly owing to the clumsiness and unseamanlike proceedings of the men who had charge of the prisoner, and partly owing to the light being yet too feeble for objects to be distinctly seen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference

Sufficient matter I can easily furnish, and fear not to prevent anything unseamanlike from entering into the composition; but to round a period well and arrange sentences so as to place what is meant in the most perspicuous point of view is too much for me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders] Reference

The steamers pass up and down with their swaggering turmoil; the little tugs whisk the sailing ships deftly in and out; but he will always think that the world was better when the bar was shallow, and when the sailors worked up stream without the aid of those unseamanlike kettles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of the Coast] Reference

The confusion rapidly became more pronounced, until every individual oar-blade was rising and falling independently of all the others, while frequent pauses of movement, accompanied by a great splashing of water, revealed that the unhappy oarsmen were busily engaged in the unseamanlike operation of "catching crabs".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Log of a Privateersman] Reference

With the frigate, however, it was different; by yielding to his feeling of exasperation, as he had, her skipper had been betrayed into a very unseamanlike act, in luffing his ship with all her studding - sails upon her, and the result was that he lost the remainder of his booms in an instant, and found himself in a worse pickle than ever.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rover's Secret A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba] Reference

It grieves me to speak of it in this unseamanlike way, but in these canoes both ends are alike, and chance alone ordains which is bow and which is stern -- stands Pierre, the first officer, also steering; the paddles used are all of the long-handled, leaf-shaped Igalwa type.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in West Africa] Reference

None, who know him, will say that Thomas Coffin ever used uncivil language, or unseamanlike conduct, to any of his mother's kind. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pilot] Reference

"During the night, Radney had an unseamanlike way of sitting on the bulwarks of the quarter-deck, and leaning his arm upon the gunwale of the boat which was hoisted up there, a little above the ship's side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference

'unseamanlike'.    From Wordnik.com.  [YBW News] Reference