ungenteeladj.
Not genteel:
a. Of manners, habits, employments, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [adjective] > specifically of persons
boistousc1300
rudec1405
blunt1477
rustyc1485
rough?1531
sillya1547
ruggedc1565
unrefined1582
unpolished1594
unfashioned1606
inurbane1623
incult1628
ungenteel1633
roughsome?c1660
unpolite1674
inelegant1735
untutored1751
unrarefied1835
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
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [adjective] > ill-mannered > ill-bred > specifically of conduct
ungentle1565
dunghill1576
ungenteel1633
α.
β. 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 82 Some Letter-Cutters..scorn to use a Forge, as accounting it..Ungenteel for themselves to officiate at.1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ I. 180 Bale bestows another ungenteel Sarcasm upon this great Armach.1778 Earl of Malmesbury Diaries & Corr. I. 211 His person was awkward, and his dress ungenteel.1811 Sporting Mag. 38 93 It is considered ungenteel to cut the pastry.1898 T. Watts-Dunton Aylwin iv. ii Have I not often told you the reason why I..missed my high vocation in ungenteel comedy?1633 W. Prynne Histrio-mastix Ep. Ded. Yet I hope I shall finde no such ungenteile, discourteous entertainment.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State v. xiv. 413 Drinking is..a most ungentile quality, fit to be banished to rogues and rags.
1691 E. Rawson & S. Sewall Revol. New Eng. Justified in Andros Tracts (1868) I. 68 The Buffoonry and Railery of such ungentiel Pens.
1711 J. Greenwood Ess. Pract. Eng. Gram. 110 It is counted ungentile and rude to say, Thou dost so and so.
b. Of persons.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [adjective] > ill-mannered > ill-bred
foul-itowenc1225
villain1340
villainous?a1366
lewdc1380
ungentle1398
low-bred1599
ill-bred1622
unbred1622
underbred1650
unjaunty1671
ungenteel1676
half-bred1694
ingenteel1694
cocktail1835
mal élevé1878
hairy at the heel1890
1676 T. Shadwell Libertine ii Thou art the most ungenteel Knight alive: use your Ladies civilly, for shame.
1712 Spectator No. 404. ⁋6 Iras is ugly and ungenteel, but has Wit and good Sense.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. i. x. 57 He was not ungenteel, nor entirely void of Wit. View more context for this quotation
1813 J. Austen Let. 11 Oct. (1995) 234 She is a large, ungenteel Woman, with self-satisfied & would-be elegant manners.
1844 W. M. Thackeray Barry Lyndon i. x, in Fraser's Mag. May 550/1 With this sum of money..we were enabled to make no ungenteel figure.
Derivatives
ungenˈteelness n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [noun]
simplessea1393
roughnessa1398
rudenessc1405
unrefinedness1607
simpleness1648
unpolishedness1652
unpoliteness1700
sordidness1704
ungenteelness1706
indelicacy1712
unrefinement1769
ungentility1822
unprinceliness1855
outbackery1961
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > ill-breeding
ungentilesse1390
ungentleness1470
rag-manners1672
under-breeding1673
ungenteelness1706
ill breeding1800
ungentility1822
ungentlemanliness1828
ungentlemanlikeness1848
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > socially inferior person > [noun] > quality or condition of
ungenteelness1706
ungentility1822
plebbishness1860
non-U1954
non-U-ness1954
1706 J. Stevens New Spanish Dict. i Desalino,..sluttishness, ungenteelness.
1723 Briton No. 11. 50 Philander discovers some Ungenteelnesses in his Manner and Behaviour.
1727 Art of Speaking in Publick 81 The indecency and ungenteelness of clamour and noise.
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