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  • adverb In an unamiable manner.

Etymologies

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unamiable +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Monsieur George remarked more unamiably than before that he really could not help all that.

    The Arrow of Gold 2006

  • The worst damned thing about that ridiculously inappropriate word is that it is often applied to Ronald Reagan, the smilingly malevolent blunderer whom I describe, unamiably, as "the most ideologically rigid and least well-informed President of modern times."

    Violent Neighbors Buckley, Tom 1984

  • Fell_ is made unamiably immortal, -- this syllogism, I say, is one that most persons have had occasion to construct and demolish, respecting somebody or other, as I have done for the Model.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 Various

  • Even the strange, perverse pleasures which he felt in painting himself unamiably to the world did not prevent him from being both startled and pained when the world took him at his word; and, like a child in a mask before a looking-glass, the dark semblance which he had half in sport, put on, when reflected back upon him from the mirror of public opinion, shocked even himself.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 469, January 1, 1831 Various

  • "Do you?" says Mr. Amherst, unamiably, feeling still a keen regret that the neat retort intended for Molly must wait another occasion.

    Molly Bawn Margaret Wolfe Hamilton

  • Talking to him I found Gouin peculiarly on his guard; broad-faced, heavy-jawed, slow of speech, almost devoid of gesticulation, he was as unamiably dispassionate as a bank manager.

    The Masques of Ottawa Domino

  • But however unamiably, he does voice a feeling very general, if not universal, in England.

    Walking-Stick Papers Robert Cortes Holliday

  • Monsieur George remarked more unamiably than before that he really could not help all that.

    The Arrow of Gold 1919

  • Monsieur George remarked more unamiably than before that he really could not help all that.

    The Arrow of Gold : A Story Between Two Notes 1919

  • He kept his place unperturbed, and looked at her seriously, though by no means unamiably.

    The Adventures of Maya the Bee Waldemar Bonsels 1919

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