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ungentle

American  
[uhn-jen-tuhl] / ʌnˈdʒɛn təl /

adjective

  1. lacking gentleness, softness, or delicacy.


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To understand that difference, rent Eliza Hittman's ungentle and gray indie drama "Never Rarely Sometimes Always," which depicts how much more grueling a much-shorter interstate journey can be for women of very little means.

From Salon Sep. 10, 2020

So on, indeed, for many years, with the two gentlemen pursuing their ungentle quarrel in magazines, television studios, and courtrooms, as “Best of Enemies” chronicles.

From The New Yorker Jul. 31, 2015

The gentle reader who has come thus far in these ungentle pages will doubtless by now be weary and not a little puzzled.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was the apotheosis of the awkward age, and an ungentle reminder that it may last from 8 to 80.

From Time Magazine Archive

I am a shieldmaiden and my hand is ungentle.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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