ungentlemanlike

Example Sentences

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It's a most ungentlemanlike thing for one gentleman to take upon himself to make inquiries about another.

From Mr. Scarborough's Family by Trollope, Anthony

A higher cultivation repudiated all these things; and even they who, so to say, "liked their wine" too well, were slow to disparage themselves by an indulgence which good taste declared to be ungentlemanlike.

From Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General by Lever, Charles James

It was directed against Lying, as not only un-Christian but ungentlemanlike.

From Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography by Russell, George William Erskine

"I never meant to make the establishment responsible for the ungentlemanlike behavior of one of its members."

From Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag by Freytag, Gustav

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