ungentlemanlike

Example Sentences

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This was highly improper and very ungentlemanlike on your part!

From The Woman in White by Collins, Wilkie

"There can be no doubt that it is very ungentlemanlike," said Mr. Chamberlaine.

From The Vicar of Bullhampton by Trollope, Anthony

“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

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