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Example sentences for "ungallant"

Lexicographically close words:
unfurnished; unfurrowed; ung; ungainliness; ungainly; ungarischen; ungathered; unge; ungenerous; ungenerously
  1. A journalist, in a column account of her career, was ungallant enough to finish by enquiring "if she were the devil incarnate?

  2. Ray has a very ungallant note on the English version of this: "Because, feeding well and doing little, she becomes liquorish, and gets a habit of idleness.

  3. This ungallant proverb signifies that the person addressed is not very good-looking.

  4. You would not be ungallant enough to insinuate that there could be too many!

  5. He is ungallant enough to say that he has never yet seen a girl whom he would care to watch walk up those steps in the moonlight.

  6. One of the courts was reserved for men's fours, for Mrs Fanshawe believed in giving her guests what they liked, and there is no doubt that men as a rule are ungallant enough to prefer their own sex in outdoor games.

  7. This ungallant act is made all the more cowardly by the fact that Mr. Blair was not present at the time.

  8. The fact that Bacon's family was one of great prominence in the colony makes this ungallant action all the more significant.

  9. How is it the young men are so ungallant as to leave you sitting out?

  10. I’m afraid it sounds very ungallant if I propose now that we should wait a little.

  11. The times are ungallant indeed and growing more so every year.

  12. The times are ungallant and they want mending.

  13. The royal pair alone might have given the lie to the Earl's ungallant words.

  14. This episode is very comical; it exhibits the Puritan youth in such an ungallant and absurd light.

  15. And since you surely will not be so ungallant as to cause the death of so charming a lady, I think I have you, let us say, at a slight disadvantage!

  16. The governor, ready enough to frighten into an unwarranted exile a woman whose entreaties he feared, would yet not be so ungallant as to give her to his secretary for the asking.

  17. The ungallant men not only compel the women to be their drudges, but slyly create a sentiment that it is disgraceful for a man to assist them.

  18. The remedy effectually restored her to consciousness and herself, by rousing her indignation against the perpetrator of such an ungallant action.

  19. At least we'll have a cigar after dinner,' was Dick's ungallant reflection as they moved away.

  20. What an ungallant admission,' said she, with a smile.

  21. This quarrelling at the wells forcibly reminds the Biblical reader of the contest of Moses in favour of the daughters of Jethro against the ungallant shepherds.

  22. On this window pane Francis the First had scratched this ungallant distich: Toute femme varie, Mal habile qui s'y fie.

  23. An ungallant speech, but made with a purpose.

  24. In all ages woman may lament the ungallant silence of the historian.

  25. I know that there are caricatures, and ungallant things sometimes said; but so far as my observation goes, they are quite equal in disposition to their married sisters.

  26. There was possibly a common element, ungallant towards a certain lady and therefore not explicitly confessed to myself, in my reluctance to turn my steps in either of those directions.

  27. All of which brings me to the ungallant confession that the two ladies, who had occupied so much of an idle man’s thoughts at Mentone, occupied considerably less of a busy man’s at Paris.

  28. An incident, connected with this play, will show how ungallant players could be to female poets, and how free they could be with their audience.

  29. Unless she happens to make love to me, In which case it would be ungallant not to reciprocate!

  30. Surely you will not be so ungallant as to insist upon a lady exposing herself and all her relations?


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ungallant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    discourteous; disrespectful; heartless; impolite; insolent; rude; spiritless; unaccommodating; uncivil; ungallant; ungracious