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

No colours are more ungenteel, or in worse taste, than reddish lilacs, reddish purples, and reddish browns.

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

"Madam," he said, "I regard the physical exertion of bobbing up and down as ungenteel."

From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton

I have always heard that he could not be provoked by any circumstances to commit an impolite or an ungenteel act.

From As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century by Gouverneur, Marian