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What does unparliamentary mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word unparliamentary? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. unsuitable to be used in parliament
  2. contrary to the rules of parliament
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What was being said was close to an imputation, and members cannot get around rules against unparliamentary language by circumlocution.
I ask that he withdraw and apologise also in respect of the unparliamentary remark be made about Mr Dail Jones when he opened his speech.
Yesterday the Assistant Speaker spent a lot of time in the House hauling me over the coals for apparently using unparliamentary language.
For all these reasons, it seems to me that we are faced here with a tactic that is unparliamentary and politically abusive.
Mr. Speaker, I would never knowingly show disrespect for the House of Commons by using language that I know to be unparliamentary.
An expression which is deemed to be unparliamentary today does not necessarily have to be deemed unparliamentary next week.

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