Usually means: Not adhering to chivalrous standards.
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  1. unknightly: Collins English Dictionary
  2. unknightly: Wordnik
  3. unknightly: Wiktionary
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  5. unknightly: Dictionary.com
  6. unknightly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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▸ adjective:  Not knightly.
▸ adjective:  Of behaviour, not befitting a knight; ungallant.

Similar:
unknightlike, unknighted, unkingly, unlordly, unmonkish, unkinglike, unkirtled, unknit, unquakerly, nonchivalric, more...

Opposite:
chivalrous, gallant, honorable

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Similar:
unknightlike, unknighted, unkingly, unlordly, unmonkish, unkinglike, unkirtled, unknit, unquakerly, nonchivalric, more...

Opposite:
chivalrous, gallant, honorable



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