Sentence Examples:
To fail at the last moment for lack of perseverance would have been utterly uncharacteristic of him.
"I will," Ellen promised, with all her heart, for she saw that, whatever the crisis might be, it was one to which her usually daring husband was looking forward with most uncharacteristic dread.
George felt an uncharacteristic welling up inside him, and he put his arm around Bill's shoulders.
Or they do things which they afterwards condemn as irrelevant or uncharacteristic and out of harmony.
He said those words with a cautious choice of expression very uncharacteristic of him, and, without further explanation, made abruptly for the door.
It was a most uncharacteristic reception, for she was of a gracious and engaging personality and a stately type of beauty.
An affair so singular, so uncharacteristic of the people among whom it happened, produced a widespread and lasting feeling of surprise.
He approached slowly, reading a blue paper, with his level gray eyes divided by a little uncharacteristic frown.
Shy, by temperament, as he saw, to the point of suffering, he felt sure that only the infection of the crowd had carried her to the act of uncharacteristic daring.
We have already told our reader that the note was a brief one, and yet was it not altogether uncharacteristic.
The plan seemed to the young man so feeble and remote, so uncharacteristic and tame, as to indicate a certain indifference in her.
And then Howard, with an uncharacteristic awkwardness, and looking very young, made a quick step forward, and with a sort of gentle roughness grasped Martin by the arm.
I knew such behavior on my behalf would not only have been uncharacteristic of me but futile as well; people were not like spark plugs.
I continued to pursue happiness through a confused sense of individualism and an uncharacteristic flurry of activity.
His modest escort of three hundred men was no large force in view of the existence of an enemy on his road, also it was quite uncharacteristic of him to appeal to such means.
Looking at her with a sadness almost stern, he clasped his hands together in a gesture curiously uncharacteristic of him; significant of his helpless pain.
His own hearty laughter joined hers, filling her with an uncharacteristic and powerful sense of triumph.
My Lady Purcell drew her own amused conclusions, nor was she sorry to suspect the girl of such reasonable yet uncharacteristic softness.
It was Susan Manchester, with that uncharacteristic, oddly efficient look she had shown at the vaults.
There was no mistaking his manner, even if it had been possible to mistake the uncharacteristic readiness which his words expressed, to submit his own plans and projects to the convenience of others.
It was so very uncharacteristic of such a robust person as dear Marian to be ill, that I could only suppose she had met with an accident.
And as her protest stirred him to a most uncharacteristic irritation, she yielded the point without further argument.