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

"I can never understand how it is that a grandson of the Earl of Denbigh, and a person of undeniable family and descent, should have such ungenteel manners."

From The Wayfarers by Snaith, J. C.

I fair ran away from her audacious, ungenteel attacks.

From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Vachell, Horace Annesley

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