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
At first the upper nurse always formed one of the party, and was rather a nuisance in her persistent endeavours to check what she called "ungenteel beayvour."
From The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant by Alexander Johnstone Wilson
There was the possibility of some pretentions to gentility on the part of a dweller in Jessamine Cottage, whereas Friar's Row, though it might, perhaps, be comfortable, was hopelessly ungenteel.
From That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 3 by Frances Eleanor Trollope
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