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
Also the improvement in manners has rendered these incursions old-fashioned and ungenteel.
From The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book by Eliza Leslie
It is exceedingly ungenteel to throw quart bottles of Burgundy at the watch.
From The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie
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
