Meaning of unprincessly | Babel Free

Definitions

Not princessly.

Examples

“She not only will never permit⟳ any one to touch⟳ her hair, which she always dresses and arranges herself, according to her own⟳ particular notions of grace and beauty, a thing which, I venture to think⟳, and may perhaps suggest⟳, is very unladylike, not to say⟳ unprincessly, savouring of plebeian independence, and low, artist-like individuality of taste⟳, wholly unbecoming her distinguished rank and station;—[…]”

“Some of the papers, with questionable taste⟳, present⟳ Mrs. [Alice Roosevelt] Longworth to their readers as the American “Princess.” There is nothing in her ways, bearing, or appearance to warrant the epithet which I give⟳, as printed, in inverted commas. Her natural, unconstrained, yet lady-like, manners are the opposite of princessly. She has chic, which, too, is unprincessly. Most princesses are shy when they find⟳ themselves with ordinary people.”

“Switching from crying to laughing, Gabriella snorted—the most unprincessly sound⟳ she had ever made.”

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