ungentlemanlike
Example Sentences
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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 Caroline Lee Hentz
He could have written probably eloquently and seriously enough, but to "speak like a book" would have lowered him, in his own esteem, as being unmanly no less than ungentlemanlike.
From M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." by G.J. Whyte-Melville
Anything which differs from this they are apt to regard as "ungentlemanlike or unladylike," and shun accordingly.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 by Various
“Have I ever behaved to you in an ungentlemanlike manner?”
From The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Augustin Filon
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 George Saintsbury
