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

What if Mrs. Rumbell, or, worse still, if Mrs. Snograss should be passing Knickerbocker House and hear the oaths and ungenteel voices of the supposedly elegant family?

From The ghosts of their ancestors by Mills, Weymer Jay

The odor of it is now considered extremely ungenteel, and it is always very disagreeable to those who do not eat it.

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

His countenance, notwithstanding the rude and ungenteel manner with which the winds and the weather had treated it, was indicative of much good-nature and benevolence of disposition.

From An Old Sailor's Yarns by Ames, N. (Nathaniel)