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 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 have always heard that he could not be provoked by any circumstances to commit an impolite or an ungenteel act.

From As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century by Gouverneur, Marian

Showy silks, and what are called dress-bonnets, are preposterous; so are jewelry ornaments—which, if real, you run a great risk of losing, and if false, are very ungenteel.

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 by Various