ungentlemanlike
Example Sentences
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For ungentlemanlike conduct in his letter to Gen. Wooster, of the 25th of January last, charging your petitioner with a falsehood, and in a private manner, which is justly chargeable on himself.
From Colonel John Brown, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the Brave Accuser of Benedict Arnold by Archibald Murray Howe
He had never stolen, and it did seem low and ungentlemanlike to steal, but this was more like finding some buried treasure, something cast up from the ocean’s bed.
From Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel by Caroline Lee Hentz
“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 John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson
Now ain't it hard that she won't trust me with a single tea-spoon—ain't it ungentlemanlike, Altamont?
From The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy by William Makepeace Thackeray
Nothing came from Uncle Silas in ungentlemanlike fashion.
From Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
