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

The odor of it is now considered extremely ungenteel, and it is always very disagreeable to those who do not eat it.

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 by Various

To spit out the stones one at a time as you proceed with the cherries is 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