Definition of "unknightly" [unknightly]

• Not knightly; ungallant. (adjective)

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• "Unlike at the academy, where sparring was discouraged as too dangerous, too undignified, too unknightly."
• "Otranto himself, and most of his followers, were obliged to betake themselves to the unknightly labours of the oar."
• "He no sooner got up from the ground, but he mounted his mare like a flash of lightning, and, enraged at the unknightly advantage which yonder rascal had taken of his stumbling horse, he flew after him like a dromedary."