ungentle
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- ungentleness noun
- ungently adverb
Example Sentences
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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
Scandalized, the Surrey Union Huntsmen rode up and tried to disperse the mongrel pack by a drastic and ungentle plying of whips Their morning had gone simply blotto.*
From Time Magazine Archive
Once, at the Kansas City railroad station, he gave a Hearst newshawk an ungentle shove and said: "You newspaper men will get along better with me if you wait until I have something to say."
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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