unwifely

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ wifely.

Adjective

unwifely (comparative more unwifely, superlative most unwifely)

1. Not wifely.
   • 1897, Stanley Waterloo, A Man and a Woman‎^[1]:

     He reproached his wife with unwifely disobedience, and with the crime of turning her own offspring against his father, and the two but mocked him!

   • 1899, James Lane Allen, Aftermath‎^[2]:

     Yet every day the theme of this old troubadour's talk around the hotels is female entanglements--mendacious, unwifely, and for him unavailing.