ungenteel
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 9
Definition of ungenteel
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Not genteel; coarse and ill-mannered.
“He was a jolly, handsome fellow, as any woman need wish for a companion; tall and well made; rather a little too large, but not so as to be ungenteel; he danced well, which I think was the first thing that brought us together.”
““Well, it would serve to cure him of an absurd practice of never asking a question at an inn, which he had adopted, when quite a young man, on the principal of its being very ungenteel to be curious. […]””
“But we are not going to leave these two people long in such a low and ungenteel station of life. Better days, as far as worldly prosperity went, were in store for both.”
“The paint on the walls was cracked and peeling. It had an air of ungenteel decay.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From un- + genteel.
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