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

Well, Tom,” turning now to his shipmate, “ye’re a man much sailed t’ foreign parts, an’ ye wouldn’t think it ungenteel, would ye, for a lad like Dannie t’ wear a seal-ring?

From The Cruise of the Shining Light by Duncan, Norman

There was the possibility of some pretentions to gentility on the part of a dweller in Jessamine Cottage, whereas Friar's Row, though it might, perhaps, be comfortable, was hopelessly ungenteel.

From That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 3 by Trollope, Frances Eleanor

Irony is not your forte; and, Merton, I beg you to recollect that I detest bantering,—it is so excessively ungenteel.

From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans