soldierly

[ UK /sˈə‍ʊld‍ʒəli/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. (of persons) befitting a warrior
    a military bearing
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How To Use soldierly In A Sentence

  • Oh, poof! You do not understand a little soldierly enthusiasm.
  • There was a great deal of soldierly good fellowship.
  • Not only had the slaveholders perpetrated the preponderance of atrocities, and with impunity at that, but they had begun to boast that northerners and New Englanders were congenitally soft and altogether lacking in "chivalric" and soldierly qualities. The Man Who Ended Slavery
  • Eh? Is not that a more soldierly sport than kinderspiel such as hand-grasping and the like? ' Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734
  • I am not sure which is funnier, "conscripted" or "other soldierly movements". Archive 2007-11-01
  • His soldierly dislike of inaccuracy overtook his discretion. IN LOVE AND WAR
  • They're not engaging in soldierly behavior, they're engaging in geekly behavior. Writer Geeks
  • My arguably unsoldierly position on this issue sprang from no more than the normal personal reserves of courage and compassion, and not from any religious persuasion, which in fact I totally lacked, but simply because it was clearly the Right Thing, whereas abiding or participating in torture was clearly inhumane and personally repugnant to me, i.e. the Wrong Thing. Confessions of an Old Soldier
  • I was drafted in the fall of 1953… a most unsoldierly soldier, but a lucky one.
  • This was so effective that the soldier was unable to maintain a unsoldierly appearance even when out of uniform.
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