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’ve got no customers as yet— In wain is my appeal— And not to buy a single bit Is werry ungenteel!

From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Hindley, Charles

"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.

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)