a. (UN-1 7 c.)
1796. Ld. Sheffield, in Ld. Aucklands Corr. (1862), III. 357. The miserable unstatesmanlike mode of taxation which has prevailed.
1837. Lytton, Athens, I. 456. A daring, but no unstatesmanlike stroke of policy.
1880. McCarthy, Own Times, IV. 397. Mr. Gladstones sudden resolve was openly condemned as petulant and unstatesmanlike.
Hence Unstatesmanlikely adv.
1846. Mrs. Gore, Eng. Char., I. 326. There are moments when the strongest ministerial mind becomes unstatesmanlikely enfeebled.