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Meanings of unpriestly in English

Not priestly; unbefitting a priest.

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        Examples for "priestly"
        Examples for "priestly"
        1
        But in the main the results were very helpful to priestly morale.
        Gather, Darkness!
        2
        But there are rising concerns about the validity of the priestly practice.
        News.com.au
        3
        The apparatus of priestly maladministration was restored in all its ancient deformity.
        A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878
        4
        I took his underhand air for a priestly air; I did wrong.
        The Memoirs of Victor Hugo
        5
        But unlike Tayoga, he had in him none of the priestly quality.
        The Shadow of the North: A Story of Old New York and a Lost Camp...
        Usage of unpriestly in English
        1
        I asked him what he meant, and he grinned and whispered something about unpriestly behavior.
        The fracture zone: my return to the balkans
        2
        The words of the splendid poem mingled in the mind of Maurice with the most incongruous and unpriestly thoughts.
        The Puritans
        3
        Please excuse my casual appearance. Morris was wearing a most unpriestly combo of jeans, plaid shirt, and green wool vest.
        Speaking in Bones
        4
        Great ill feeling was aroused against Thangbrand by this unpriestly incident, and he went back full of penitence to King Olaf.
        Olaf the Glorious: A Story of the Viking Age
        5
        Crabbe's close acquaintance with "the flowery pages of sublime distress," with "vengeful monks who play unpriestly tricks," with banditti
        The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance
        6
        How could the Church keep itself unspotted from the world when its highest officers were chosen by laymen and were compelled to perform unpriestly duties?
        Early European History
        7
        "I find you all in most unpriestly excitement; what has disturbed your equanimity?"
        Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Volume 01
        8
        "If the priest was into something... unpriestly... maybe there was something embarrassing to someone else who was on the video."
        Heat Rises
        More collocations
        Unpriestly through the time