I think it ungenteel and barbarous, and quite un-English; the custom having been a foreign one, ever since the reigns of the uncivilised sultans in the Arabian Nights, who always called the wise men of their time about them. ❋ Unknown (2007)
‘I beg your pardon, Mr. Weller,’ said Mr. John Smauker, agonised at the exceeding ungenteel sound, ‘will you take my arm?’ ❋ Unknown (2007)
“And the king, they say, kickit Sir Robert Walpole for no keeping down the mob of Edinburgh; but I dinna believe he wad behave sae ungenteel.” ❋ Unknown (2007)
Oh lawdy, lawdy, lawdy Miss Mellie, I do decleah these Democrats are so ungenteel! ❋ Unknown (2006)
But we are not going to leave these two people long in such a low and ungenteel station of life. ❋ Unknown (2006)
With this sum of money, and a good run of luck which ensued presently, we were enabled to make no ungenteel figure. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Some were wonderfully well pleased with this order; others blamed it as unsociable and ungenteel, and were of the opinion that, as soon as I was out of my office, the manner of entertainments ought to be reformed; for, says Hagias, we invite one another not barely to eat and drink, but to eat and drink together. ❋ Unknown (2004)
He was not ungenteel, nor entirely devoid of wit, and in his youth had abounded in sprightliness, which, though he had lately put on a more serious character, he could, when he pleased, resume. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Sophia, “but I thought he seemed rather awkward, and ungenteel than otherwise.” ❋ Unknown (2004)
For as it is rude and ungenteel to inquire and ask what sort of meat, wine, or ointment the person whom we are to entertain loves best; so it is neither disobliging nor absurd to desire him who hath a great many acquaintance to bring those along with him whose company he likes most, and in whose conversation he can take the greatest pleasure. ❋ Unknown (2004)
As he passed from ungenteel poverty back into genteel and adjusted his appearance accordingly, he sensed his quarry, neared it, then arrived practically on top of it. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2001)
She had difficulty finding someone to comment on her manuscripts and felt ashamed to her literary employment: 'as I reckon scribbling by trade very ungenteel, I never set too with comfort, till candles come, & visitors cease.' (p. 198). ❋ Unknown (2000)
She had talked about it quite freely and unblushingly during the party at which the announcement of their betrothal was made — just as if mere were nothing shameful in such an admission and nothing ungenteel about such a public topic of conversation. ❋ Balogh, Mary (1997)
She was with him now, laughing with quite ungenteel amusement at something someone had said. ❋ Balogh, Mary (1997)
