ungentlemanlike

Example Sentences

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Then and there seemed likely to occur what the newspapers term an ungentlemanlike fracas.

From Checkmate by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

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

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

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

It is said, perhaps untruly, that his remonstrance to the Prince against his remaining here has been ungentlemanlike and indecent.

From Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 by Graham, Maria

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

From Checkmate by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan