ungentlemanlike
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Of this ungentlemanlike attempt his lordship is apprised by a ragged post-boy, and an honest butcher: but he is so much engaged in the pronunciation of those important words, Done!
From The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency by John Trusler
If there are citizens of the State who think it unladylike or ungentlemanlike to take their part in the government, let them stay at home.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
His conduct was most offensive, and most—most ungentlemanlike.
From The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope
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
The kind of vice of which George had been undoubtedly guilty was very distasteful to Sir Harry; it had been ignoble and ungentlemanlike vice.
From Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite by Anthony Trollope
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