Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

To the tune of the clinking of his fight-honoured armour Unkingly, unhappy, he went his ways homeward.

From Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough by Morris, William

Or is it the rage of stark Edward; the base Unkingly revenge on a kinglier race; The wrong idly wrought on the patriot dead; The dark castle of doom; the scorn-diadem’d head?

From The Visions of England Lyrics on leading men and events in English History by Morley, Henry

Unkingly should I be, and most unknightly, Not striving still, however much in vain, To rival him in Christian charity.

From Becket and other plays by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Goneril: Continue in your joy of punishing evil, Your passion of just revenge upon wrong-doers, Unkingly and untrue?

From Georgian Poetry 1913-15 by Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir

Unkingly, indeed unheroic, little of kin with them they might well have thought that panting George; and yet they might have looked on him with interest as the last of their proud race.

From A History of the Four Georges, Volume II by McCarthy, Justin