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unparliamentary

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Not in accord with parliamentary procedure.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Contrary to the usages or rules of proceeding in Parliament or in any legislative (or by extension deliberative) body; not such as can be used or uttered in Parliament or any legislative body: as, unparliamentary language.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not parliamentary; contrary to the practice of parliamentary bodies.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective unsuitable to be used in parliament
  • adjective contrary to the rules of parliament

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective so rude and abusive as to be unsuitable for parliament

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Examples

  • Immigration officials have complained that Karygiannis, the MP for Ontario's Scarborough-Agincourt riding, has used what they call unparliamentary language on multiple occasions in dealing with staff and takes an aggressive tone with civil servants.

    CBC | Top Stories News 2011

  • The Speaker did say that although the comments weren't 'unparliamentary' - thus Ritchie avoided receiving a similar fat that was given to Iris Robinson who was banned from the Chamber for a day for unparliamentary remarks about the Health Minister which she refused to withdraw - the Speaker did however advise Ritchie to read Hansard and reflect on her remarks.

    Slugger O'Toole 2008

  • The Speaker did say that although the comments weren't 'unparliamentary' - thus Ritchie avoided receiving a similar fat that was given to Iris Robinson who was banned from the Chamber for a day for unparliamentary remarks about the Health Minister which she refused to withdraw - the Speaker did however advise Ritchie to read Hansard and reflect on her remarks.

    Slugger O'Toole 2008

  • The first few debates have drawn complaints over excessive heckling and the use of "unparliamentary" language, but an analyst chalked it up to the sudden transition.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • Malatsi withdrawing his "unparliamentary" statement, which Senator

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • Here and there a great oblong many-windowed factory stood up, like a hen among her chickens, puffing out black 'unparliamentary' smoke, and sufficiently accounting for the cloud which Margaret had taken to foretell rain.

    North and South Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

  • The fact that Mr Deve Gowda's language was 'unparliamentary' on Sunday doesn't cut much ice.

    Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views' 2010

  • The BJP activists charged Singh with using "unparliamentary" language against their leaders and raised slogans against him.

    Daily News & Analysis 2010

  • Mr. Sibal's actions made him the target of uncomplimentary—certainly unparliamentary—words on the Internet, with users exercising their freedoms while they still can.

    India's Authoritarian Lapse Salil Tripathi 2011

  • The American model is borrowed to a great extent from the Westminster system and under unparliamentary language calling someone “liar” is the number one with a bullet way to be censured.

    Matthew Yglesias » Bob McDonnell To Attempt First Non-Horrible SOTU Response in American History 2010

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  • maryw commented on the word unparliamentary

    “But we are bidden by parliament to burn our own smoke; so I suppose, like good little children, we shall do as we are bid—some time.”

    “But I think you told me you had altered your chimneys so as to consume the smoke, did you not?” asked Mr. Hale.

    “Mine were altered by my own will, before parliament meddled with the affair. It was an immediate outlay, but it repays me in the saving of coal. I’m not sure whether I should have done it, if I had waited until the act was passed. At any rate, I should have waited to be informed against and fined, and given all the trouble in yielding that I legally could. But all laws which depend for their enforcement upon informers and fines, become inert from the odiousness of the machinery. I doubt if there has been a chimney in Milton informed against for five years past, although some are constantly sending out one-third of their coal in what is called here unparliamentary smoke.”

    Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (1854-55), ch. X

    July 3, 2023