unseamanlike

English[edit]

unseamanlike (comparative more unseamanlike, superlative most unseamanlike)

Not characteristic of or befitting a seaman.
- 1822, Edmund Burke, Annual Register, volume 63, page 410:
  On behalf of the Dundee, it was deposed, that the loss of the Princess Charlotte was purely accidental, or if attributable to any mismanagement, attributable only to the unseamanlike conduct of the Princess Charlotte's own people […]
- 2013, Bryan Willis, The Rules in Practice 2013-2016:
  If he is able to keep clear only by making an unseamanlike manoeuvre, then your tack was too close.