genteel
adjective
belonging or suited to polite society.
ungenteel
-
a word derived from
genteel.
Example Sentences
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The characters can be raucous and the situations ungenteel, but not since “Clueless,” which transported “Emma” to Beverly Hills, has Austen been so delightedly interpreted.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2016
As education for editing a magazine as national as the Post, this early and extremely ungenteel footlessness could scarcely be beaten.
From Time Magazine Archive
Large showy ornaments, by way of jewellery, are exceedingly ungenteel.
From The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book by Eliza Leslie
At first the upper nurse always formed one of the party, and was rather a nuisance in her persistent endeavours to check what she called "ungenteel beayvour."
From The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant by Alexander Johnstone Wilson
"Madam," he said, "I regard the physical exertion of bobbing up and down as ungenteel."
From The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie
