ungentlemanlike

Example Sentences

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

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

A higher cultivation repudiated all these things; and even they who, so to say, "liked their wine" too well, were slow to disparage themselves by an indulgence which good taste declared to be ungentlemanlike.

From Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General by Lever, Charles James

He has behaved in the most cowardly, treacherous, ungentlemanlike way,” she continued vehemently.

From Checkmate by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

He is doing what he ought not to do, I must say that;—quite what I call ungentlemanlike.

From Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite by Trollope, Anthony

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 Saintsbury, George