ungentlemanlike

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Of this ungentlemanlike attempt his lordship is apprised by a ragged post-boy, and an honest butcher: but he is so much engaged in the pronunciation of those important words, Done!

From The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency by Trusler, John

If there are citizens of the State who think it unladylike or ungentlemanlike to take their part in the government, let them stay at home.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

I always understood that there could be nothing ungentlemanlike, in the way of business, in taking advantage of the flaw in a lease.'

From The Parent's Assistant Stories for Children by Edgeworth, Maria

Now ain't it hard that she won't trust me with a single tea-spoon—ain't it ungentlemanlike, Altamont?

From The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy by Thackeray, William Makepeace

The kind of vice of which George had been undoubtedly guilty was very distasteful to Sir Harry; it had been ignoble and ungentlemanlike vice.

From Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite by Trollope, Anthony