Meaning of ungenteel | Babel Free

Definitions

Not genteel; coarse and ill-mannered.

Examples

“He was a jolly, handsome fellow, as any woman need⟳ wish⟳ for a companion; tall and well made; rather a little too large, but not so as to be ungenteel; he danced well, which I think⟳ was the first thing that brought us together.”

““Well, it would serve⟳ to cure him of an absurd practice of never asking a question⟳ at an inn, which he had adopted, when quite a young man, on the principal of its being very ungenteel to be curious. […]””

“1845, Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth, Chirp the Second, If I might be allowed to mention⟳ a young lady’s legs on any terms, I would observe⟳ of Miss⟳ Slowboy’s that there was a fatality about them which rendered them singularly liable to be grazed; and that she never effected the smallest ascent or descent without recording the circumstance upon them with a notch, as Robinson Crusoe marked the days upon his wooden calendar. But, as this might be considered ungenteel, I’ll think⟳ of it.”

“But we are not going to leave⟳ these two people long in such a low and ungenteel station of life. Better days, as far as worldly prosperity went, were in store for both.”

“The paint⟳ on the walls was cracked and peeling. It had an air of ungenteel decay.”

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