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Example sentences for "ungenteel"

Lexicographically close words:
ungathered; unge; ungenerous; ungenerously; ungenial; ungentle; ungentlemanlike; ungentlemanly; ungently; ungirded
  1. She is a large, ungenteel woman, with self-satisfied and would-be elegant manners.

  2. I found Mr. Petulengro seated by the door of his tent, smoking his pipe, in rather an ungenteel undress.

  3. Providence, indeed, ordained that men should live by the sweat of their brows; but it is horrid ungenteel to do so.

  4. If the scenes are ungenteel," said he, "it is because nature is made up of ungenteel things.

  5. These apologies are ungenteel and foolish.

  6. There is something peculiarly ungenteel and ungraceful in a white ground with large red flowers and green leaves wandering over it.

  7. It is ungenteel to go to the breakfast-table in any costume approaching to full dress.

  8. It is exceedingly ungenteel to throw quart bottles of Burgundy at the watch.

  9. Pray pardon this ungenteel summons, my dear Miss Courteen, but if you would not consider yourself compromised by such an adventure, I should be vastly honoured by your inspection of some proper new prints which have fallen into my hands.

  10. So now get up and wipe your eyes; but recollect, that whenever you dare to tell me that I'm vexed, I won't be so ungenteel as to contradict you.

  11. To be sure it was very ungenteel behaviour, but then he was disguised in love, and so did not know what he was about.

  12. She declared that Virginia should not mix with the vulgar, ungenteel girls of the place, and that, if she had demeaned herself by marrying below her rank, at all events her daughter should be brought up as she ought to be.

  13. His clothes were, it is true, equal if not superior to those worn by the mere common, ordinary clerks with whom he was bound to associate, and whose coarse and ungenteel ways he was for a portion of the day obliged to endure.

  14. They had rooms in Peckham, Islington, Kennington, and such ungenteel neighbourhoods.

  15. I fair ran away from her audacious, ungenteel attacks.

  16. Your rich cake allers lies heavy on my pore stomach, but 'twould be ungenteel to refuse.

  17. Have I not often told you the reason why I threw up my engagement with my theatrical manager, and missed my high vocation in ungenteel comedy?

  18. I can never understand how it is that a grandson of the Earl of Denbigh, and a person of undeniable family and descent, should have such ungenteel manners.

  19. The inn we selected was an ungenteel one enough in a remote village; and that night we supped and lay in it in conscious state, and royally spent the last of Mr. Fielding's guinea on a breakfast the following morning.

  20. He was looking straight ahead of him, very sternly, as though to let her know he realized how wicked and ungenteel she was.


  21. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ungenteel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    baseborn; boorish; chintzy; coarse; cockney; common; commonplace; crude; earthborn; homely; humble; improper; inappropriate; inconsiderate; indecent; indecorous; indelicate; inelegant; insensitive; loutish; low; lowly; mean; nasty; offensive; ordinary; plain; plebeian; rude; tactless; tasteless; unbecoming; undignified; unfeminine; ungentlemanly; unladylike; unrefined; unseemly; unsuitable; vulgar