What is "unpriestly"

Usage examples of "unpriestly".

He came up spluttering and cursing in most unpriestly fashion, face, beard, and robe plastered with mud.

There had been one young woman-Annabelle, Father Jacques thought, smiling gently at her memoryoward whom he had felt a very unpriestly attraction.

So Flavia had to present herself at the main door as a private visitor, then wait in a rundown and dingy room for nearly forty minutes before Aldo Morante bounced in and gave her a most unpriestly kiss.

Great ill feeling was aroused against Thangbrand by this unpriestly incident, and he went back full of penitence to King Olaf.

The two assistants scrambled to prop it back up again, one of them swearing with a most unpriestly set of oaths and tone to his voice.

That was fine with Hamus, who occupied himself by daydreaming about a series of very unpriestly activities.

Our local priest had some unpriestly appetites, and since he was so unspeakably holy, he assumed that any young lady who stirred those appetites absolutely had to be a witch.

He showed King a place to sleep, in a niche behind a great stone image, and lent him a pair of most unpriestly blankets.

He shaved his head like a priest, but wore a robe of a most unpriestly orange.

This came from a male rebel, gray at the temples and wearing the brown robe of a disciple of Ulla, cinched now at the waist with an unpriestly sword-belt.

But the Reverend Kelly was about as unpriestly as could be imagined, so the surprise was muted.

Blood streamed down one arm but he held a knife in his good hand, and swore terrible oaths in most unpriestly language.