ungallant
- a word derived from gallant.
Example Sentences
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The Times made ungallant references to Taft’s heft, and to the chief reason for his visit, to see his sister.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2022
“It’s a very ungallant way to ride, but the only way it works,” he said.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 14, 2019
There was no worst thing actually and I think it would be ungallant of me to say so even if there were.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2017
And though it may ungallant to say it about a sometime lady, 30 years on Arnold is showing his age.
From New York Times • Jun. 13, 2012
He promised to write it down, but pausing a little longer than ordinary about it, she returned to her former way of uncivil merriment and ungallant raillery.
From The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campell A Gentlen, who, tho' Deaf and Dumb, Writes down any Stranger's name at first Sight; by Defoe, Daniel
