ungentlemanly

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Matthew Rhys plays the crusading lawyer from Erle Stanley Gardner’s books and the Raymond Burr series as a pre-courtroom, pre-close-shave private investigator performing ungentlemanly tasks for dapper lawyer E.B.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2021

But by the second film, there’s a decidedly ungentlemanly whiff about them - of desperation.

From Washington Times • Sep. 20, 2017

In March 1982, Palmer decried the ungentlemanly behavior and selfishness of some of the Tour’s top players in a missive to Deane Beman, then the PGA Tour commissioner.

From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2017

Opposed by some in the establishment for its "ungentlemanly" behaviour, SOE was disbanded in 1946.

From BBC • Aug. 5, 2016

Writing directly about Herman’s absence from his lab would have been not only ungentlemanly but unnecessary.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson