unpatriarchal

Updated: May 24, 2025

Were it not for this, which renders his contours and his receding aspect unseemly, he would be indeed a venerable-looking person, having a profile worthy of a patriarch, tinged though it may be with an unpatriarchal jollity, and a close curly beard like that of King David.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - Certain Personal Matters