ungentlemanlike

Example Sentences

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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

This was highly improper and very ungentlemanlike on your part!

From The Woman in White by Collins, Wilkie

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

From Checkmate by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

Your statements would evidently imply that Colonel Newcome has been guilty of ungentlemanlike conduct, and of cowardice towards you.

From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by Thackeray, William Makepeace

He had never stolen, and it did seem low and ungentlemanlike to steal, but this was more like finding some buried treasure, something cast up from the ocean’s bed.

From Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel by Hentz, Caroline Lee