ungentlemanlike

Example Sentences

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He has behaved in the most cowardly, treacherous, ungentlemanlike way,” she continued vehemently.

From Checkmate by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

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 Graham, Maria

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

This was highly improper and very ungentlemanlike on your part!

From The Woman in White by Collins, Wilkie

Now, sir, I beg to tell you, that if your ungentlemanlike and underhand plot had succeeded, you dared not darken with your shadow the door-sill of the house you purchased.

From Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 by Lever, Charles James