ungentlemanlike

Example Sentences

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If there are citizens of the State who think it unladylike or ungentlemanlike to take their part in the government, let them stay at home.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

“Have I ever behaved to you in an ungentlemanlike manner?”

From The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Filon, Augustin

But then there was that accursed system of petitioning, which according to his idea was un-English, ungentlemanlike, and unpatriotic—"A stand-up fight, and if you're licked—take it."

From Ralph the Heir by Trollope, Anthony

Your statements would evidently imply that Colonel Newcome has been guilty of ungentlemanlike conduct, and of cowardice towards you.

From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by Thackeray, William Makepeace

Then and there seemed likely to occur what the newspapers term an ungentlemanlike fracas.

From Checkmate by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan