ungenteellyadv.
(un- prefix1 5; cf. ungenteel adj.)
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [adverb] > unmannerly > in ill-bred manner
ungentlemanly1572
ungentlemanlike1664
ungenteelly1666
1666 S. Pepys Diary 6 Aug. (1972) VII. 237 My Lord..did treat her thereupon very rudely and ungenteely.
1673 Bp. S. Parker Reproof Rehearsal Transprosed 452 You might have done very honestly, but yet very ungentily.
1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation l. 505 And further, very ungenteely,..Dorman..charged his Adversary with no less than Eighty Two Lyes.
1825 C. Waterton Wanderings in S. Amer. (1879) i. ii. 132 Parson Evans, the Welshman, was treated most ungenteelly by an enraged spirit.
1875 W. Alexander Sketches Life among Ain Folk 115 After you felt that you had been ungenteelly treated.
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