Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an ungenteel manner; impolitely; uncivilly.

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Examples

  • They try to assume something of our colder race's demeanor, but even the passer on the horse-car can see that it is not native with them, and is better pleased when they forget us, and ungenteelly laugh in encountering friends, letting their white teeth glitter through the generous lips that open to their ears.

    The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) Various 1887

  • They try to assume something of our colder race's demeanor, but even the passer on the horse-car can see that it is not native with them, and is better pleased when they forget us, and ungenteelly laugh in encountering friends, letting their white teeth glitter through the generous lips that open to their ears.

    Suburban Sketches William Dean Howells 1878

  • Dido had used herself ungenteelly, and Madame d'Enfer stood firm on the point of etiquette.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • Dido had used herself ungenteelly, and Madame d'Enfer stood firm on the point of etiquette.

    Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • And in after-times Parson Evans, the Welshman, was treated most ungenteelly by an enraged spirit solely because he had forgotten a fumigation in his witch-work.

    Wanderings in South America Charles Waterton 1823

  • If I have, Gentlemen, I am sorry for it; but it never was my intention to treat any person ungenteelly.

    A Collection of Plays and Poems, by the Late Col. Robert Munford, of Mecklenburg County, in the State of Virginia. Now First Published Together. 1798

  • "Dear Captain Smith," the ghost replied, "you've used me ungenteelly;

    The Book of Humorous Verse Various 1902

  • Have patience, and you shall know it all; but if you treat me so ungenteelly again, I shall be obliged to call in the assistance of the lawyers. "

    The Prairie James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • "I thought," she resumed, "that your lordship wished Lord Courtney to marry me; and I am sure I think he has behaved very ungenteelly, and it is very hard to be treated so, just when I believed I was so near being married, and he always appeared to admire me so.

    Drelincourt and Rodalvi; or, Memoirs of Two Nobel Families Byron 1807

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