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Example sentences for "ungentle"

Lexicographically close words:
unge; ungenerous; ungenerously; ungenial; ungenteel; ungentlemanlike; ungentlemanly; ungently; ungirded; ungirt
  1. A thought ungentle canna be The thought o' Mary Morison.

  2. It is my study To seem despiteful and ungentle to you.

  3. For this ungentle business, Put on thee by my lord, thou ne'er shalt see Thy wife Paulina more.

  4. Ungentle Queen, to call him gentle Suffolk!

  5. You have deceiv'd our trust And made us doff our easy robes of peace To crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.

  6. I know thee, ay-- The most ungentle knight in Arthur's hall.

  7. For he was of those who must be taught, by many ungentle lessons, that one must know how to lose as well as how to win.

  8. With ungentle hands he forced open the dead jaws, not yet stiffened in the rigor of death.

  9. Yet every harsh and ungentle tone was forgiven by her, for she knew that forgiveness was of Heaven.

  10. None regretted her absence, for all said, "What a pity that so sweet a name should be accompanied by so ungentle a spirit.

  11. I cannot believe the fault lies at my door, and I hope for her own sake that her highness, on second thought, will realize how ungentle and unkind some one else has been.

  12. She was one of the few persons whom anger and disdain and the other passions which we call ungentle seemed to illumine--they were so strong in her, and yet not violent.

  13. Yea," said he, "I know thee for an ungentle knight, therefore beware of me.

  14. And hardly did Sir Key escape with his life, from the wound Beaumains had given him; but all men blamed him for his ungentle treatment of so brave a knight.

  15. For my poor lady mother Did kill herself to save my dying brother; And thou, ungentle son of Miriam, Why didst thou beg life when thy mother lack'd?

  16. Such the ungentle sport that oft invites The Spanish maid, and cheers the Spanish swain.

  17. It easeth him that toils and him that's sorry; It makes the deaf to hear, to see the blind; Ungentle sleep, thou helpest all but me!

  18. XXII It was of love, ungentle gentle boy!

  19. Auntie seized her hand with a rough action, but not ungentle grasp, and led her away to the house.

  20. Your foresters rated me in ungentle terms," said Shakespeare; "railed at, and bestowed vile epithets upon me.

  21. She mocked and laughed at him, adding cruel words to her ungentle treatment, and gave not the slightest gleam of hope.

  22. Then he said, "A cursed ungentle son-in-law, truly!

  23. Tis well there is any hold on a disposition so ungentle and self-willed as his.

  24. The ungentle soul, the inconsiderate, unsympathetic nature can not do anything else.

  25. The gentle man can not in the nature of things do an ungentle and ungentlemanly thing.

  26. Will, as an atonement for the ungentle way in which he had come in upon his sister after school, offered her the nicest plate of berries, and insisted that she should take the crispiest roll.

  27. I did my work well, if I may believe the Senator, and grew familiar with the gentle and ungentle arts of the politician.

  28. I had not been in Canton a week when I received a rude shock which was my first lesson in the ungentle art of politics.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ungentle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    astringent; atrocious; austere; barbaric; barbarous; bestial; bloody; boorish; brutal; coarse; crude; dour; feral; ferocious; fierce; grim; hard; harsh; inclement; inconsiderate; inhuman; insensitive; loutish; malign; malignant; merciless; murderous; nasty; offensive; pitiless; rough; rugged; ruthless; sanguinary; savage; severe; stern; stringent; tactless; uncivilized; unfeminine; ungentlemanly; unladylike; unrefined; unsparing; untamed; vicious; vulgar; wild