It seems ungenteel to them to be taken with physical attraction. From Wordnik.com. [Snow Angels]
Then, to refuse roast beef and baked ham would be very ungenteel!. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
She is a large, ungenteel woman, with self-satisfied and would-be elegant manners. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
Oh lawdy, lawdy, lawdy Miss Mellie, I do decleah these Democrats are so ungenteel!. From Wordnik.com. [Hullabaloo] Reference
Sophia, “but I thought he seemed rather awkward, and ungenteel than otherwise.”. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling] Reference
She was with him now, laughing with quite ungenteel amusement at something someone had said. From Wordnik.com. [A Christmas Bride]
If a married couple were to be seen frequently in each other's company, they would be deemed extremely ungenteel. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference
I have always heard that he could not be provoked by any circumstances to commit an impolite or an ungenteel act. From Wordnik.com. [As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century] Reference
With this sum of money, and a good run of luck which ensued presently, we were enabled to make no ungenteel figure. From Wordnik.com. [The Memoires of Barry Lyndon] Reference
Dealing in second-hand books, half of which were dramatic works, was a business not only irreligious, but ungenteel. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873] Reference
"Why, oh, why, Don S., did you have to spoil it all by this thoughtless and ungenteel behaviour, and after such a jolly cruise?". From Wordnik.com. [Flashman's Lady]
‘I beg your pardon, Mr. Weller,’ said Mr. John Smauker, agonised at the exceeding ungenteel sound, ‘will you take my arm?’. From Wordnik.com. [The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club] Reference
“And the king, they say, kickit Sir Robert Walpole for no keeping down the mob of Edinburgh; but I dinna believe he wad behave sae ungenteel.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference
But as this might be considered ungenteel, I'll think of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Cricket on the Hearth] Reference
Edinburgh; but I dinna believe he wad behave sae ungenteel. ''. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference
O no, I only hope you don't think it too ungenteel to walk with me. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Step-Mother] Reference
The ungenteel people in a country are so much more interesting than the gentlefolks. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of a Pilgrimage] Reference
That's a d-- d ungenteel thing of Mr. Hatteraick, as I shall let him know by and by. From Wordnik.com. [Guy Mannering — Complete] Reference
I don't believe Orpheus would think even a bear ungenteel when it danced to his music. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2] Reference
The young ladies arrived: their appearance was by no means ungenteel or unfashionable. From Wordnik.com. [Sense and Sensibility] Reference
'Misfortune! well, perhaps it is; at any rate it is very ungenteel to have such a memory. From Wordnik.com. [The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro'] Reference
Estella to be pronounced entirely ungenteel, and no sort of person to associate with a Gordon. From Wordnik.com. ['Lizbeth of the Dale] Reference
But we are not going to leave these two people long in such a low and ungenteel station of life. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
Mr. Hart could only say that he meant to have his money, but that he did not mean to be "ungenteel.". From Wordnik.com. [Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite] Reference
It is not only a most ungenteel practice to cut ham in thick slices, but it much impairs the flavour. From Wordnik.com. [Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches] Reference
I pictured the train, a long procession of compartments like ours, full of rough, natural, ungenteel people. From Wordnik.com. [Sacred and Profane Love] Reference
'Oh, I don't know: everything that is unrefined and ungenteel,' added she, slyly looking up into her father's face. From Wordnik.com. [Wives and Daughters] Reference
English gentleman how he'd be despised, if he was to talk in such an ungenteel manner as this before any foreigners. From Wordnik.com. [Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World] Reference
'I beg your pardon, Mr. Weller,' said Mr. John Smauker, agonised at the exceeding ungenteel sound, 'will you take my arm?'. From Wordnik.com. [The Pickwick Papers] Reference
"I did not take much notice of him," answered Sophia, "but I thought he seemed rather awkward, and ungenteel than otherwise.". From Wordnik.com. [History of Tom Jones, a Foundling] Reference
'Pray finish your sentence, sir, and say the low bohemian painter, the representative of the great ungenteel -- the successor to the. From Wordnik.com. [Aylwin] Reference
Iras is ugly and ungenteel, but has Wit and good Sense: If Cælia would be silent, her Beholders would adore her; if Iras would talk, her. From Wordnik.com. [The Spectator, Volume 2.] Reference
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