gentleman
noun
a man of good family, breeding, or social position.
ungentlemanlike
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a word derived from
gentleman.
Example Sentences
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The kind of vice of which George had been undoubtedly guilty was very distasteful to Sir Harry; it had been ignoble and ungentlemanlike vice.
From Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite by Anthony Trollope
He is doing what he ought not to do, I must say that;—quite what I call ungentlemanlike.
From Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite by Anthony Trollope
“I should leave the neighbourhood,” she said promptly.—“And, if you were so very ungentlemanlike, as still to persecute her with your attentions, I should soon take measures to put a stop to them.”
From She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History. by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson
A higher cultivation repudiated all these things; and even they who, so to say, "liked their wine" too well, were slow to disparage themselves by an indulgence which good taste declared to be ungentlemanlike.
From Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General by Charles James Lever
He has behaved in the most cowardly, treacherous, ungentlemanlike way,” she continued vehemently.
From Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
