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
Inhabitants, in conclusion, I confidently appeal to you, if you ever knew me do an ungenteel act to any Protestant in point of religion.
From Two Addresses One to the Gentlemen of Whitby and the other, to the Protestant Clergy by Nicholas Rigby
"Madam," he said, "I regard the physical exertion of bobbing up and down as ungenteel."
From The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie
Elizabeth had fully expected Estella to be pronounced entirely ungenteel, and no sort of person to associate with a Gordon.
From 'Lizbeth of the Dale by Mary Esther Miller MacGregor
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