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
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 Weymer Jay Mills
He was looking straight ahead of him, very sternly, as though to let her know he realized how wicked and ungenteel she was.
From 'Lizbeth of the Dale by Mary Esther Miller MacGregor
"I can never understand how it is that a grandson of the Earl of Denbigh, and a person of undeniable family and descent, should have such ungenteel manners."
From The Wayfarers by J. C. Snaith
