ungentlemanlike

Example Sentences

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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

Can I imagine myself admitting the necessity of guarding against such an ungentlemanlike form of attack?

From Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy by Gosse, Edmund

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

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

He could have written probably eloquently and seriously enough, but to "speak like a book" would have lowered him, in his own esteem, as being unmanly no less than ungentlemanlike.

From M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." by Whyte-Melville, G.J.

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