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

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

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

At first the upper nurse always formed one of the party, and was rather a nuisance in her persistent endeavours to check what she called "ungenteel beayvour."

From The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant by Wilson, Alexander Johnstone

No ungenteel screaming, no bloodshed; only a palatable tisane which tasted a little like celery.

From The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis