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
It is exceedingly ungenteel to throw quart bottles of Burgundy at the watch.
From The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie
I fair ran away from her audacious, ungenteel attacks.
From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Horace Annesley Vachell
Only let it be understood, once for all, that to describe him as "the apostle of the ungenteel" is either to speak in riddles or quite to misunderstand his real merits and abilities.
From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury
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