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ungallant /ʌnˈɡal(ə)nt / /ʌnɡəˈlant/adjectiveNot gallant: he was an ungallant swine for not coming to her aid...- We refuse to rise to this slur on reputations of the likes of her and other undomestic goddesses; suffice to say that the ungallant man should be so lucky.
- She establishes beyond doubt that he was a conceited careerist and ungallant husband, but doesn't necessarily prove that his work was ‘kitsch’ and ‘trash’.
- I think it is probably polite just to ignore Mr Jowett's rather ungallant assertion that I am naïve and his suggestion that I am a hypocrite.
Derivativesungallantly adverb ...- ‘She'll try to sleep with you,’ they said, somewhat ungallantly.
- The clerk pauses to greet two bulkily clad, dot-faced women wary of crossing the slippery road, but ungallantly fails to raise his regulation top-hat.
- Rumours circulated that other attempts to photograph the families together had been foiled when McConnell ungallantly jumped behind Wark.
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