ungenteel
Example Sentences
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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
The odor of it is now considered extremely ungenteel, and it is always very disagreeable to those who do not eat it.
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 by Various
The steward chose to imitate the squire; and the attorney found it would be quite ungenteel to stand out.
From The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales by More, Hannah
I fair ran away from her audacious, ungenteel attacks.
From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Vachell, Horace Annesley
