Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not genteel; impolite; rude: of persons or manners.
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- adjective Not
genteel ;coarse andill-mannered .
Etymologies
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Examples
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‘I beg your pardon, Mr. Weller,’ said Mr. John Smauker, agonised at the exceeding ungenteel sound, ‘will you take my arm?’
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I think it ungenteel and barbarous, and quite un-English; the custom having been a foreign one, ever since the reigns of the uncivilised sultans in the Arabian Nights, who always called the wise men of their time about them.
Miscellaneous Papers 2007
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“And the king, they say, kickit Sir Robert Walpole for no keeping down the mob of Edinburgh; but I dinna believe he wad behave sae ungenteel.”
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Oh lawdy, lawdy, lawdy Miss Mellie, I do decleah these Democrats are so ungenteel!
Hullabaloo 2006
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Oh lawdy, lawdy, lawdy Miss Mellie, I do decleah these Democrats are so ungenteel!
Hullabaloo 2006
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But we are not going to leave these two people long in such a low and ungenteel station of life.
Vanity Fair 2006
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With this sum of money, and a good run of luck which ensued presently, we were enabled to make no ungenteel figure.
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Oh lawdy, lawdy, lawdy Miss Mellie, I do decleah these Democrats are so ungenteel!
Hullabaloo 2006
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Oh lawdy, lawdy, lawdy Miss Mellie, I do decleah these Democrats are so ungenteel!
Hullabaloo 2006
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Oh lawdy, lawdy, lawdy Miss Mellie, I do decleah these Democrats are so ungenteel!
Hullabaloo 2006
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