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

No, I can't suspect him of so ungenteel a crime—This letter shall trace the truth.

From The Constant Couple or, A Trip to the Jubilee by Farquhar, George

I fair ran away from her audacious, ungenteel attacks.

From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Vachell, Horace Annesley

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

From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Vachell, Horace Annesley