ungentlemanlike

Example Sentences

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But fashionable classes are fair game, if not shot at sitting; or poached, or snared, or bagged, in any ungentlemanlike, unsportsmanlike fashion.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 by Various

Nothing came from Uncle Silas in ungentlemanlike fashion.

From Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

Anything which differs from this they are apt to regard as "ungentlemanlike or unladylike," and shun accordingly.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 by Various

He had never stolen, and it did seem low and ungentlemanlike to steal, but this was more like finding some buried treasure, something cast up from the ocean’s bed.

From Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel by Hentz, Caroline Lee

It is said, perhaps untruly, that his remonstrance to the Prince against his remaining here has been ungentlemanlike and indecent.

From Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 by Graham, Maria