ungentlemanly

Example Sentences

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This sort of loose talk is nothing short of ungentlemanly.

From Slate • Feb. 3, 2024

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

“I’ll try, but it was a very ungentlemanly thing to do, I didn’t think you could be so sly and malicious, Laurie,” replied Meg, trying to hide her maidenly confusion under a gravely reproachful air.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott