ungentlemanlikeadj.adv.
A. adj.
1. Of character, actions, etc.: Not befitting or natural to a gentleman.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [adjective] > unseemly > for specific people
unprincely1536
ungentlemanly1562
unprincelike1579
unroyala1586
knightless1590
ungentlemanlike1592
unknightly1596
unkingly1606
unregal1611
ungentlemanny1667
unqueenlike1679
unofficerlike1746
unladylike1766
unquality-like1784
ungentlewomanlike1789
unqueenly1819
unpatriarchal1836
1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes H 1 b Neither was I..pincht with any vngentleman-like want, when I inuented Pierce Pennilesse.
1652 J. Wadsworth tr. P. de Sandoval Civil Wars Spain 363 Hee was mightily condemned by all that saw or heard of that ungentleman-like action.
1728 Fog's Weekly Jrnl. 21 Dec. 1/1 I cannot conceive the Cause from whence, that base, that unworthy, that Un-Gentleman-like Quality [sc. avarice] should arise.
1804 M. Edgeworth Limerick Gloves iv, in Pop. Tales I. 269 Complaining of this ungenerous and ungentleman-like behaviour in the grocer.
1884 Macmillan's Mag. Nov. 12/2 Work just as dirty, and tricks just as ungentleman-like.
2. Not resembling a gentleman.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > socially inferior person > [adjective]
low-bred1599
dunghilled1600
ungenteel1633
underbred1650
half-bred1694
ingenteel1694
ungentlemanlike1719
lowlife1728
under-degreed1748
lower class1812
downstairs1819
low-class1836
wrong1859
(as) common as dirt (also muck)1877
plebbish1928
downscale1930
non-U1954
1719 Free-thinker No. 126. 1 The most Illiberal, Ungentlemanlike Members of Society.
1749 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 15 May (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1343 They come home, the unimproved, illiberal, and ungentlemanlike creatures that one daily sees them.
1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park III. x. 199 Ungentlemanlike as he looked. View more context for this quotation
B. adv.
Not after the fashion of a gentleman.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [adverb] > unmannerly > in ill-bred manner
ungentlemanly1572
ungentlemanlike1664
ungenteelly1666
1664 S. Pepys Diary 14 July (1971) V. 203 My Lord Chancellor..said that I did most ungentlemanlike with him.
1687 E. Settle Refl. Dryden's Plays 74 Do not deal so unnaturally and ungentleman like, to treat so honourable a man..so rudely.
1831 W. Scott Quentin Durward (new ed.) II. vi. 116 How unkingly, unknightly, ignobly, ungentlemanlike, he hath conducted himself towards us.
Derivatives
unˈgentlemanlikeness n.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > ill-breeding
ungentilesse1390
ungentleness1470
rag-manners1672
under-breeding1673
ungenteelness1706
ill breeding1800
ungentility1822
ungentlemanliness1828
ungentlemanlikeness1848
1848 J. H. Newman Loss & Gain (1853) i. iv. 201 I have behaved quite rudely to the Puseyites sometimes, and then been ashamed of my ungentlemanlikeness.
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