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

This was highly improper and very ungentlemanlike on your part!

From The Woman in White by Collins, Wilkie

Now, sir, I beg to tell you, that if your ungentlemanlike and underhand plot had succeeded, you dared not darken with your shadow the door-sill of the house you purchased.

From Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 by Lever, Charles James

There is something ill-mannered, ungentlemanlike, what we now call rowdy, in personal encounters, even among laymen,—and this is of course aggravated when the assailant is a clergyman.

From Is He Popenjoy? by Trollope, Anthony

"I never meant to make the establishment responsible for the ungentlemanlike behavior of one of its members."

From Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag by Freytag, Gustav