ungentlemanlike

Example Sentences

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He stopt; and, ungentlemanlike as he looked, Fanny was obliged to introduce him to Mr. Crawford.

From Mansfield Park by Austen, Jane

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

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

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

It was directed against Lying, as not only un-Christian but ungentlemanlike.

From Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography by Russell, George William Erskine