No doubt a good deal could be said about the botany of a single blade of grass, but the flock is starving whilst the green pastures are interdicted by the fluent but most unshepherdly botanist.
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Unshepherdly
Synonyms for "unshepherdly"
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[Bo Peep] is the tale of one who is originally a merely unfortunate shepherd but who soon becomes a wilful and deliberate loser of sheep, an unshepherdly shepherd.
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Beginning with the opening command to Ezekiel to prophesy to the shepherds of Israel, the message is a tirade against their unshepherdly oppression of sheep who are now scattered without shepherds.
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The old woman walked behind them waving them on like a shepherd, but cackling in the most unshepherdly manner.
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