Meaning of unsisterliness | Babel Free
Examples
“Don’t let⟳ me be surprised at your seeming unsisterliness, Bella. I hope⟳ it is but seeming. There can be no wit in such jesting as this.”
“1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes, Chapter IV. Legends, Never did four walls look⟳ down upon an uglier spectacle than these sisters rivalling in unsisterliness.”
“1926, Abbie Graham, Grace H. Dodge, Merchant of Dreams, New York: The Womans Press⟳, Chapter 5, pp. 105-106, There must have⟳ been a great deal⟳ of patronage towards these working girls, especially among groups of older women, or else Grace Dodge would not have⟳ so frequently warned women against the unsisterliness of patronage.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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