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

Well, Tom,” turning now to his shipmate, “ye’re a man much sailed t’ foreign parts, an’ ye wouldn’t think it ungenteel, would ye, for a lad like Dannie t’ wear a seal-ring?

From The Cruise of the Shining Light by Duncan, Norman

Unhappy girl! to leave me in such an ungenteel manner too, run away from me on my wedding day! but I'll find her out.

From She Would Be a Soldier The Plains of Chippewa by Moses, Montrose Jonas

His countenance, notwithstanding the rude and ungenteel manner with which the winds and the weather had treated it, was indicative of much good-nature and benevolence of disposition.

From An Old Sailor's Yarns by Ames, N. (Nathaniel)