ungenteel

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The characters can be raucous and the situations ungenteel, but not since “Clueless,” which transported “Emma” to Beverly Hills, has Austen been so delightedly interpreted.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2016

As education for editing a magazine as national as the Post, this early and extremely ungenteel footlessness could scarcely be beaten.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Your rich cake allers lies heavy on my pore stomach, but 'twould be ungenteel to refuse."

From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Vachell, Horace Annesley

Irony is not your forte; and, Merton, I beg you to recollect that I detest bantering,—it is so excessively ungenteel.

From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans

I have always heard that he could not be provoked by any circumstances to commit an impolite or an ungenteel act.

From As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century by Gouverneur, Marian