ungentlemanly

Example Sentences

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As ungentlemanly as it is, that is not what he is charged with.

From BBC • Dec. 9, 2022

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

“I think it very ungentlemanly of him,” brooded Mr. Aaa.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury