Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being ungentlemanly.
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- noun The state or condition of being
ungentlemanly .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Video footage of the encounter seems to have been scrubbed from the internet, but its gracelessness, and Timberlake's unaccountable ungentlemanliness, speaks for itself.
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Some men almost work their hands off and deny themselves many of the common comforts of life in their earnest efforts to succeed, and yet render success impossible by their cross-grained ungentlemanliness.
Pushing to the Front Orison Swett Marden 1887
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For I believe one of the worst symptoms of modern society to be, its notion of great inferiority, and ungentlemanliness, as necessarily belonging to the character of a tradesman.
A Joy For Ever (And Its Price in the Market) John Ruskin 1859
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"Well, perhaps not, but a form of ungentlemanliness less repulsive to me -- Oh, just to me personally.
Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House Anthony Hope 1898
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