ungentlemanlike

Example Sentences

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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 Lever, Charles James

There is something ill-mannered, ungentlemanlike, what we now call rowdy, in personal encounters, even among laymen,—and this is of course aggravated when the assailant is a clergyman.

From Is He Popenjoy? by Trollope, Anthony

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 Edgeworth, Maria

The kind of vice of which George had been undoubtedly guilty was very distasteful to Sir Harry; it had been ignoble and ungentlemanlike vice.

From Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite by Trollope, Anthony

His conduct was most offensive, and most—most ungentlemanlike.

From The Eustace Diamonds by Trollope, Anthony