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

Irony is not your forte; and, Merton, I beg you to recollect that I detest bantering,—it is so excessively ungenteel.

From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans

No colours are more ungenteel, or in worse taste, than reddish lilacs, reddish purples, and reddish browns.

From The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book by Leslie, Eliza

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