ungentlemanly
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Matthew Rhys plays the crusading lawyer from Erle Stanley Gardner’s books and the Raymond Burr series as a pre-courtroom, pre-close-shave private investigator performing ungentlemanly tasks for dapper lawyer E.B.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2021
But by the second film, there’s a decidedly ungentlemanly whiff about them - of desperation.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 20, 2017
Anything perceived as ungentlemanly, however, causes the greatest offense.
From New York Times ● Oct. 23, 2016
Opposed by some in the establishment for its "ungentlemanly" behaviour, SOE was disbanded in 1946.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2016
“I’ll try, but it was a very ungentlemanly thing to do, I didn’t think you could be so sly and malicious, Laurie,” replied Meg, trying to hide her maidenly confusion under a gravely reproachful air.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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