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Example sentences for "ungentlemanly"

Lexicographically close words:
ungenerously; ungenial; ungenteel; ungentle; ungentlemanlike; ungently; ungirded; ungirt; unglaciated; unglazed
  1. Your idea of a gentleman was put forward by lazy fakirs who were living off of what their ungentlemanly ancestors had annexed, and who didn't want to be disturbed.

  2. This altogether ungentlemanly language naturally brought forth language quite as ungentlemanly from the accused, who stood up in the car and took his turn at dancing about and shaking his own fist.

  3. And we could not think it ungentlemanly of him to say we were like jam, because, as Alice says, jam is very nice indeed--only not on furniture and improper places like that.

  4. And he is sorry even without those reasons, because he knows it is ungentlemanly to play tricks on women.

  5. Small boys should learn that it is not manly for them to squeeze the hand of a girl, tease, pinch or pull a girl’s hair and he should not think of such an ungentlemanly thing as to try to kiss a girl.

  6. In thus addressing me, Cannon acted in a more ungentlemanly manner than I had ever known him to do, for he was not a man to intrude advice upon his friends--especially on matters of so serious a nature, as the one he had introduced.

  7. That same evening, when on duty, I was spoken to by the captain in a harsh and ungentlemanly manner.

  8. Christianity, in a mixed company, would be frowned upon by society as being ungentlemanly and in bad taste.

  9. He had a very profligate nephew, a military man, who had been dismissed from the Sardinian service for base and ungentlemanly conduct, had engaged in two or three duels, and had wasted his means in vice and extravagance.

  10. When we are pitched upon our own bottoms, we must work; and that is a highly ungentlemanly thing to do.

  11. He went on to show how ungentlemanly and unbecoming in a "cadet and gentleman" such an act would be.

  12. Martin felt that to dispute such testimony, for no better reason than because he had his secret misgivings on the subject, would be ungentlemanly and indecent.

  13. A youth might just as well excuse himself for his boorish manners and ungentlemanly conduct on the ground that other people were mean and ungentlemanly to him.

  14. I think, and I am sure you will, that it is one of the most ungentlemanly and blackguardly things to deprive any man of his just rights, not to say unchristianlike and despicable.

  15. It was agreed that a lie was ungentlemanly and wrong.

  16. You interfered with the discipline of the vessel, and because the captain respectfully declined to recall the boat, you threw yourself into a passion, and behaved in a most ungentlemanly and undignified manner.

  17. The novelty of the Josephine's force-pump had not yet worn away, and it contributed in no small degree to alleviate the hard and ungentlemanly labor of washing down decks.

  18. To leave an affianced bride in the lurch in this heartless manner was a most ungentlemanly proceeding.

  19. He announced himself in such ungentlemanly terms that I was forced to let the whole party, including the adorable little witch, go on to Pau by themselves, while I betook my broken heart to the Café de l'Univers.

  20. In fact, they even hung aloof, in a most ungentlemanly manner, from Jerry Miller, who had just stood treat, and both these departures from the usual custom indicated that something unusual was the matter.

  21. Twould be awfully ungentlemanly to let her know there was any mistake.

  22. Jermyn was in an unpleasant quandary, but he soon got out of it by saying that to ask for the letter would be ungentlemanly of him, so he couldn't do it.

  23. It had seemed an ungentlemanly and under-handed thing to do, much though he informed himself that the result would not injure the child in any way.

  24. If that is so,' I added, feeling that I had been imposed upon in a very unworthy and ungentlemanly manner, 'will you have the goodness to tell me what right you have to this ridiculous apparition here?

  25. He considered it a low and ungentlemanly thing to do.

  26. I wouldn’t do such a ungentlemanly thing.

  27. Her father's ungentlemanly suggestion being thus disposed of, she returned to her first charge.

  28. It is needless to say that he was followed closely by Billy, who from the street had casually noticed him, and construed his novel exit into an ungentlemanly challenge.

  29. He had remonstrated, he said, and pointed out that it would be most ungentlemanly so to do; but that Sir Francis had broken away from him, intimating that his resolution was not to be shaken.

  30. I will not believe," he replied, "that you could act so ungentlemanly a part.

  31. Through this latter most ungentlemanly practice, the ruin which I had predicted to Toby Dammit overtook him at last.

  32. Well; is there anything ungentlemanly in saving people's lives and property?


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ungentlemanly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    boorish; broad; coarse; crude; discourteous; impolite; inconsiderate; insensitive; loutish; nasty; offensive; rough; rude; shabby; tactless; unbecoming; unfeminine; ungentlemanly; ungracious; unladylike; unrefined; unseemly; untoward; vulgar