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

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

"And if they are conceited, and prating, and ungenteel," added Caroline.

From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Leslie, Eliza

Unhappy girl! to leave me in such an ungenteel manner too, run away from me on my wedding day! but I'll find her out.

From She Would Be a Soldier The Plains of Chippewa by Moses, Montrose Jonas