Ungrandmotherly
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Not grandmotherly.
"Left without a mother in his infancy—perhaps that was what prevented him from achieving the highest fame as an author—his father placed him with a grandmother, who, in a singularly ungrandmotherly way, cheated him out of the appropriations for his education."
Example
More examples"Left without a mother in his infancy—perhaps that was what prevented him from achieving the highest fame as an author—his father placed him with a grandmother, who, in a singularly ungrandmotherly way, cheated him out of the appropriations for his education."
Etymology
From un- + grandmotherly.
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