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Definition of uncharacteristic:

  • (adjective) distinctive and not typical; "a book uncharacteristic of its author"

Sentence Examples:

As if that unfortunate and misguided body had not enough sins to its account without having melodramatic and uncharacteristic kidnappings and deeds of violence attributed to it.

Reeves, is sometimes thought to sit ungracefully, when it is uncharacteristic, not to the man, but to the times.

North turned on his cot and his thoughts turned with him from Montgomery to Gilmore, who also, with uncharacteristic cowardliness had fled the scene of his illegal activities and the indictment that threatened him anew.

That strange ceremoniousness, too, at other times evinced, seemed not uncharacteristic of one playing a part above his real level.

Was the understanding between father and daughter, and this apparent and most uncharacteristic submission to his judgment on her part, based on a common passion, acquisitiveness?

And he said so, with uncharacteristic impulsiveness.

Alan laughed at the impatient jig they danced as they waited for him and Brad to catch up with them, and Brad put an arm around his shoulder and kissed him on the cheek in a moment of uncharacteristic demonstrativeness.

He was inclined to think that artists, however admirable in their functions, were undesirable in their persons, and the reverent enthusiasm that Miss Woodruff imagined in him was singularly uncharacteristic.

This cross, though graceful and rich, and given because it happens to be one of the best preserved, is uncharacteristic in one respect; for, instead of the central rose at the meeting of the arms, we usually find a hand raised in the attitude of blessing, between the sun and moon, as in the two smaller crosses seen in the Plate.

The unbounded influence he at once acquired over almost every one who approached him, enabled him to make men do the most uncharacteristic things, and created the impression that he discovered traits of character hidden from others.

Smith, who has been boring his readers to death for a year, may write tomorrow a thing that will please them so much that he will at once be a prime favorite again; and Jones, whom they have been asking for, may do something so uncharacteristic and alien that it will be a flat failure in the magazine.

Smith, who has been boring his readers to death for a year, may write to- morrow a thing that will please them so much that he will at once be a prime favorite again; and Jones, whom they have been asking for, may do something so uncharacteristic and alien that it will be a flat failure in the magazine.

Such departures from rationality disturbed me, particularly because they were uncharacteristic; while I often sat steeped in thought or immersed in dreams, I rarely played out those reflections in the physical sense.

Emmy Lou felt an uncharacteristic proneness to tears.

He said, with a gruffness oddly uncharacteristic of him.

All our information about John Barbour, except the little to be gleaned from the complimentary references of later authors, is drawn from official sources, and is thus, of course, perfectly precise, but meager and uncharacteristic.

Nothing but a detailed examination of existing fragments suffices to impress the mind with the quantity of plays from which malignant fortune has preserved samples, fantastically inadequate, and, in many cases, tantalizingly uncharacteristic.

General sentiments, uncharacteristic imagery, and both drawn out in a spiritless, or, which comes to the same thing, a too curious expression, are the proper faults of this drama.

Sylvester read this letter, so uncharacteristic of the man as he had known him, with a recrudescence of implacable feeling.

Possibly the action, so uncharacteristic of most Englishmen, attracted particularly the attention of Mary Ursula.

We all make dreadful mistakes, and do things utterly uncharacteristic, and inexpressive of ourselves.