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ungenˈteel, a.
Also 7 ungenteile, -iel, 7–8 ungentile.
[un-1 7 and 5 b.]
Not genteel: a. Of manners, habits, employments, etc.
α1633Prynne Histrio-m. Ep. Ded., Yet I hope I shall finde no such ungenteile, discourteous entertainment. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. v. xiv. 413 Drinking is..a most ungentile quality, fit to be banished to rogues and rags. 1691E. Rawson in Andros Tracts I. 68 The Buffoonry and Railery of such ungentiel Pens. 1711J. Greenwood Eng. Gram. 110 It is counted ungentile and rude to say, Thou dost so and so.
β1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xii. ⁋1 Some Letter-Cutters..scorn to use a Forge, as accounting it.. Ungenteel for themselves to officiate at. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. I. 180 Bale bestows another ungenteel Sarcasm upon this great Armach. 1778Earl Malmesbury Diaries & Corr. I. 211 His person was awkward, and his dress ungenteel. 1811Sporting Mag. XXXVIII. 93 It is considered ungenteel to cut the pastry. 1898Watts-Dunton Aylwin iv. ii, Have I not often told you the reason why I..missed my high vocation in ungenteel comedy?
b. Of persons.
1676Shadwell Libertine ii, Thou art the most ungenteel Knight alive: use your Ladies civilly, for shame. 1712Spect. No. 404 ⁋6 Iras is ugly and ungenteel, but has Wit and good Sense. 1749Fielding Tom Jones i. x, [The half-pay officer] was not ungenteel, nor entirely void of Wit. 1813Jane Austen Lett. (1884) II. 172 She is a large, ungenteel woman, with self-satisfied and would-be elegant manners. 1844Thackeray Barry Lyndon ix, With this sum of money..we were enabled to make no ungenteel figure.
Hence ungenˈteelness.
1706Stevens i, Desalino,..sluttishness, ungenteelness. 1723Briton No. 11 (1724) 50 Philander discovers some Ungenteelnesses in his Manner and Behaviour. 1727Art of Speaking in Publick 81 The indecency and ungenteelness of clamour and noise. |