a. (UN-1 7 c.)

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1796.  Ld. Sheffield, in Ld. Auckland’s Corr. (1862), III. 357. The miserable unstatesmanlike mode of taxation which has prevailed.

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1837.  Lytton, Athens, I. 456. A daring, but no unstatesmanlike stroke of policy.

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1880.  McCarthy, Own Times, IV. 397. Mr. Gladstone’s sudden resolve was openly condemned as petulant and unstatesmanlike.

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  Hence Unstatesmanlikely adv.

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1846.  Mrs. Gore, Eng. Char., I. 326. There are moments … when the strongest ministerial mind becomes unstatesmanlikely enfeebled.

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