ungentlemanlike
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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 G.J. Whyte-Melville
“Have I ever behaved to you in an ungentlemanlike manner?”
From The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Augustin Filon
Of this ungentlemanlike attempt his lordship is apprised by a ragged post-boy, and an honest butcher: but he is so much engaged in the pronunciation of those important words, Done!
From The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency by John Trusler
Nothing came from Uncle Silas in ungentlemanlike fashion.
From Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Although Clifford was esteemed a man of wit and a scholar, his style is rude, coarse, and ungentlemanlike, and the criticism is chiefly verbal.
From The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author by George Saintsbury
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