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
No ungenteel screaming, no bloodshed; only a palatable tisane which tasted a little like celery.
From The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Lewis Wingfield
Elizabeth had fully expected Estella to be pronounced entirely ungenteel, and no sort of person to associate with a Gordon.
From 'Lizbeth of the Dale by Mary Esther Miller MacGregor
Irony is not your forte; and, Merton, I beg you to recollect that I detest bantering,—it is so excessively ungenteel.
From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Augusta J. Evans Wilson
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