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  • adjective Not domestic.

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  • adjective not domestic or related to home

Etymologies

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un- +‎ domestic

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Examples

  • In case my undomestic skills were ever questioned, this exchange should prove it.

    In case my undomestic skills were ever questioned, this exchange should prove it. « 2008

  • In case my undomestic skills were ever questioned, this exchange should prove it.

    July « 2008 « 2008

  • In case my undomestic skills were ever questioned, this exchange should prove it.

    In case my undomestic skills were ever questioned, this exchange should prove it. « 2008

  • It comes out straight from Sophie Kinsella's undomestic goddess's kitchen though.

    Archive 2008-04-01 bhags 2008

  • It comes out straight from Sophie Kinsella's undomestic goddess's kitchen though.

    This book makes me cook bhags 2008

  • It was in vain to argue the tyranny of some husbands, when he could turn upon us the follies of some wives; and that wives and daughters were never more faulty, more undomestic, than at present; and when we were before a judge, who, though he could not be absolutely unpolite, would not flatter us, nor spare our foibles.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • Before ma got ill, I was an undomestic goddess, I didnt have a clue how to do anything because my ma always did everything for me the spoilt only child.

    grown up 2005

  • In English travel writing, at least, the most radical departure from this undomestic norm is made by Eric Newby, who actually takes his wife with him on his travels, his wife being Wanda, the woman who rescued him from the Nazis in World War II.

    Now Voyager McMurtry, Larry 2000

  • All other animals are domestic animals; man alone is ever undomestic, either as a profligate or a monk.

    Orthodoxy 1874-1936 1990

  • Besides, life in Paris is such an expensive mode of existence, the simplest pleasures there are so very costly, and there are so many microscopic issues through which money pours away in that undomestic life, in that career passed almost continually in public, that one must have a considerable fortune, or lead an extremely retired life.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 Various

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