ungentlemanlike

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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

But fashionable classes are fair game, if not shot at sitting; or poached, or snared, or bagged, in any ungentlemanlike, unsportsmanlike fashion.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 by Various

"His relationship to Lady Eustace cannot justify ungentlemanlike impertinence to me," said Lord Fawn.

From The Eustace Diamonds by Trollope, Anthony

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

From Checkmate by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

Although Clifford was esteemed a man of wit and a scholar, his style is rude, coarse, and ungentlemanlike, and the criticism is chiefly verbal.

From The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author by Saintsbury, George