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Connors ungallantly – or in the interests of telling it like it was – reveals in passing the terminated pregnancy that led to his splitting from 19-year-old Chris Evert.

From The Guardian • May 27, 2013

The film is approximately right in suggesting that Greville ungallantly passed Emma on to his uncle, Sir William Hamilton.

From The Guardian • Jan. 6, 2011

Supposedly a surprise to the guests, Gwen's gambit had been detected by ear-to-the-martini-tray Columnist George Dixon, who ungallantly told all in the Washington Post and Times Herald the day before.

From Time Magazine Archive

Outside the chamber, one politician even ungallantly attacked the King's wife.

From Time Magazine Archive

Surrey advanced and reconnoitred, and then sent the king a herald requesting him to descend into the plain, as he acted ungallantly in thus practically shutting himself up in a fortress.

From England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel by Cook, Joel