ungenteel

Example Sentences

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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

Unhappy girl! to leave me in such an ungenteel manner too, run away from me on my wedding day! but I'll find her out.

From She Would Be a Soldier The Plains of Chippewa by Moses, Montrose Jonas

"Your rich cake allers lies heavy on my pore stomach, but 'twould be ungenteel to refuse."

From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Vachell, Horace Annesley

I’ve got no customers as yet— In wain is my appeal— And not to buy a single bit Is werry ungenteel!

From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Hindley, Charles