ungenteel

Example Sentences

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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

"And if they are conceited, and prating, and ungenteel," added Caroline.

From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Leslie, Eliza

The odor of it is now considered extremely ungenteel, and it is always very disagreeable to those who do not eat it.

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 by Various

What if Mrs. Rumbell, or, worse still, if Mrs. Snograss should be passing Knickerbocker House and hear the oaths and ungenteel voices of the supposedly elegant family?

From The ghosts of their ancestors by Mills, Weymer Jay