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

Of course I speak of a not less distance from town than a long day’s journey: any nearer than that, all flowers but exotics have long since been banished from parlour windows, as highly ungenteel.

From Mirror of the Months by Patmore, Peter George

The steward chose to imitate the squire; and the attorney found it would be quite ungenteel to stand out.

From The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales by More, Hannah

Elizabeth had fully expected Estella to be pronounced entirely ungenteel, and no sort of person to associate with a Gordon.

From 'Lizbeth of the Dale by MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller