ungentlemanlike

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“I should leave the neighbourhood,” she said promptly.—“And, if you were so very ungentlemanlike, as still to persecute her with your attentions, I should soon take measures to put a stop to them.”

From She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History. by Hutcheson, John C. (John Conroy)

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

It's a most ungentlemanlike thing for one gentleman to take upon himself to make inquiries about another.

From Mr. Scarborough's Family by Trollope, Anthony

Anything which differs from this they are apt to regard as "ungentlemanlike or unladylike," and shun accordingly.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 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 Trollope, Anthony