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ungenteel

ungenteel adjective: not genteel; coarse and ill-mannered.

Adjective

ungenteel (comparative more ungenteel, superlative most ungenteel)

  1. Not genteel; coarse and ill-mannered.
    • He was a jolly, handsome fellow, as any woman need wish for a companion; tall and well made; rather a little too large, but not so as to be ungenteel; he danced well, which I think was the first thing that brought us together.1724, Daniel Defoe, Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress
    • “Well, it would serve to cure him of an absurd practice of never asking a question at an inn, which he had adopted, when quite a young man, on the principal of its being very ungenteel to be curious. […]”1817 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter XV, in Persuasion; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=III or IV), London: John Murray, […], 20 December...

Forms of ungenteel

comparativemore ungenteel
superlativemost ungenteel

Origin of ungenteel

From un- + genteel.

Words formed from ungenteel

Questions about ungenteel

What does ungenteel mean?
Ungenteel means not genteel; coarse and ill-mannered.
What part of speech is ungenteel?
Ungenteel is an adjective.

Words near ungenteel in the dictionary

  1. ungenially
  2. ungenialness
  3. ungenius
  4. ungeniuses
  5. ungenotyped
  6. ungenteel
  7. ungenteelly
  8. ungenteelness
  9. ungentile
  10. ungentility
  11. ungentle

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