unknightly

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ knightly.

Adjective

unknightly (comparative more unknightly, superlative most unknightly)

1. Not knightly.
   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 31:

     There still faintly beamed from the woman's features something of the freshness, and even the prettiness, of her youth; rendering it probable that the personal charms which Tess could boast of were in main part her mother's gift, and therefore unknightly, unhistorical.

2. Of behaviour, not befitting a knight; ungallant.