Example Sentences

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Ah! but some sticker-up for gentility will exclaim, ‘The hero did not refuse this office from an insurmountable dislike to its ungentility, but merely from a feeling of principle.’

From The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' by Sampson, John

I was an alien from the genteel world; why should I not get the benefit of my ungentility?

From Salute to Adventurers by Buchan, John

If you pinned her down to it, she would admit that there had to be poor; there could not be gentility, except on the basis of a large class of ungentility.

From 100%: the Story of a Patriot by Sinclair, Upton