ungentlemanlike
Example Sentences
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It is said, perhaps untruly, that his remonstrance to the Prince against his remaining here has been ungentlemanlike and indecent.
From Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 by Maria Graham
But fashionable classes are fair game, if not shot at sitting; or poached, or snared, or bagged, in any ungentlemanlike, unsportsmanlike fashion.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 by Various
He is doing what he ought not to do, I must say that;—quite what I call ungentlemanlike.
From Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite by Anthony Trollope
I always understood that there could be nothing ungentlemanlike, in the way of business, in taking advantage of the flaw in a lease.'
From The Parent's Assistant Stories for Children by Maria Edgeworth
A higher cultivation repudiated all these things; and even they who, so to say, "liked their wine" too well, were slow to disparage themselves by an indulgence which good taste declared to be ungentlemanlike.
From Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General by Charles James Lever
