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ungenteel

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To place your hat on any article of furniture when you enter a room is ungenteel; to lay it on a bed is unpardonable.

Then, to refuse roast beef and baked ham would be very ungenteel!

Dealing in second-hand books, half of which were dramatic works, was a business not only irreligious, but ungenteel.

She never laughed at his jokes, and thought him ungenteel, and not careful enough about improving his mind; and that vexed him.

CRANFORDELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL

The ungenteel people in a country are so much more interesting than the gentlefolks.

The steward chose to imitate the squire; and the attorney found it would be quite ungenteel to stand out.

"Oh, I don't know: everything that is unrefined and ungenteel," added she, slily looking up into her father's face.

WIVES AND DAUGHTERSELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL

The young ladies arrived: their appearance was by no means ungenteel or unfashionable.

Your rich cake allers lies heavy on my pore stomach, but 'twould be ungenteel to refuse.

And Alicia withdrew abruptly into the room, blushing for her detected sin of ungenteel curiosity.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985