unsoldierly

adj

1. Not soldierly, not appropriate for a soldier.

   “His desertion was condemned as an unsoldierly act of cowardice.”

   “For which most unsouldierly & unworthy action […] he had this insuing Judgement pronounced against him […]”

   “1718, Alexander Pope, The Iliad of Homer, London: Bernard Lintot, Volume 4, Observations on the Fourteenth Book, Verse 81, p. 131, He does not say, to shun the Battel, for that had been unsoldierly, but he softens the Phrase, and calls it, to shun Evil:”

   “Maurice. What, an unarm’d man? A man that never wore a sword? A priest? It is unsoldierly! I say, ye shall not!”

   “It is a miserable story. Even Yate, who saw it happen, betrays an unsoldierly sigh.”

adv

1. In a manner that is not appropriate for a soldier.

   “A few of them limped unsoldierly in deference to blistered feet.”

   “[…] you, soldiers, that shift unsoldierly The weapons that should be upright, at attention, like stiff grass-blades:”