ungenteel
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The characters can be raucous and the situations ungenteel, but not since “Clueless,” which transported “Emma” to Beverly Hills, has Austen been so delightedly interpreted.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2016
As education for editing a magazine as national as the Post, this early and extremely ungenteel footlessness could scarcely be beaten.
From Time Magazine Archive
I’ve got no customers as yet— In wain is my appeal— And not to buy a single bit Is werry ungenteel!
From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Charles Hindley
There was the possibility of some pretentions to gentility on the part of a dweller in Jessamine Cottage, whereas Friar's Row, though it might, perhaps, be comfortable, was hopelessly ungenteel.
From That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 3 by Frances Eleanor Trollope
Well, Tom,” turning now to his shipmate, “ye’re a man much sailed t’ foreign parts, an’ ye wouldn’t think it ungenteel, would ye, for a lad like Dannie t’ wear a seal-ring?
From The Cruise of the Shining Light by Norman Duncan
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