ungenteel

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The characters can be raucous and the situations ungenteel, but not since “Clueless,” which transported “Emma” to Beverly Hills, has Austen been so delightedly interpreted.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2016

As education for editing a magazine as national as the Post, this early and extremely ungenteel footlessness could scarcely be beaten.

From Time Magazine Archive

What if Mrs. Rumbell, or, worse still, if Mrs. Snograss should be passing Knickerbocker House and hear the oaths and ungenteel voices of the supposedly elegant family?

From The ghosts of their ancestors by Mills, Weymer Jay

Showy silks, and what are called dress-bonnets are preposterous—so are jewellery ornaments, which, if real, you run a great risk of losing, and if false, are very ungenteel.

From The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book by Leslie, Eliza

Only let it be understood, once for all, that to describe him as "the apostle of the ungenteel" is either to speak in riddles or quite to misunderstand his real merits and abilities.

From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George