ungentlemanlike

Example Sentences

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Can I imagine myself admitting the necessity of guarding against such an ungentlemanlike form of attack?

From Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy by Gosse, Edmund

Nothing came from Uncle Silas in ungentlemanlike fashion.

From Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

Now, sir, I beg to tell you, that if your ungentlemanlike and underhand plot had succeeded, you dared not darken with your shadow the door-sill of the house you purchased.

From Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 by Lever, Charles James

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

He stopt; and, ungentlemanlike as he looked, Fanny was obliged to introduce him to Mr. Crawford.

From Mansfield Park by Austen, Jane