ungentlemanlike
Example Sentences
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Your statements would evidently imply that Colonel Newcome has been guilty of ungentlemanlike conduct, and of cowardice towards you.
From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by William Makepeace Thackeray
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
"I never meant to make the establishment responsible for the ungentlemanlike behavior of one of its members."
From Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag by Gustav Freytag
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
Nothing came from Uncle Silas in ungentlemanlike fashion.
From Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
