ungenteel

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Recent Examples of ungenteel White outfits became the dress code at Wimbledon in the eighteen-eighties, because it was believed that white best masked ungenteel perspiration. Gerald Marzorati, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ungenteel
Adjective
  • The restaurant was in violation of 17 standards, including an employee preparing food with jewelry and improper food storage.
    Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Silver was arrested on charges of operating under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs, operating an unregistered motor vehicle, operating a motor vehicle without minimum insurance, improper use of registration plates, traveling unreasonably fast and improper rear lamps.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 31 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Under the Omanis, Zanzibar grew rich selling spices, ivory, and slaves, mostly non-Muslims from the interior, whom the island’s élites derided as washenzi, or uncivilized.
    Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Forcing a woman to choose between jail and carrying her rapist's baby is uncivilized and medieval.
    CNN, CNN, 27 June 2022
Adjective
  • Liang Wenfeng hires young people and bookworms for his engineering team, and is described as a humble and nerdy leader.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Amy Schumer isn't just humble about her fame, she's shocked by it.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 30 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • This communication is false, inappropriate, and ineffective.
    Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Allegations against him included inappropriate physical contact with a student, an unwillingness to adhere to special education laws and subjective grading practices.
    Jennah Pendleton, Sacramento Bee, 3 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Experts told PolitiFact such narratives painting Haiti as a barbarous country are not new and are racist attempts to dehumanize Haitians.
    Jeff Cercone, Austin American-Statesman, 14 Sep. 2024
  • Treating barbarous body horror as something embedded in us deeper than the mutual love of a partner, especially when it’s done without the theatrical or exploitation trappings, makes for one of the New French Extremity’s most troubling works.
    Rory Doherty, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2024
Adjective
  • But on this southern front of the Trump empire, Palm Beach County, Donald Trump is flirting with ignoble defeat.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
  • This is something of an ignoble cap to one of the worst years of Rodgers' illustrious career.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Orange Beach has a vulgarity ordinance on the books, which was enacted about a decade ago amid concerns about vulgar or indecent T-shirts and other merchandise sold at souvenir stores.
    al, al, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Because there are more good people than indecent ones.
    Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 12 Jan. 2023
Adjective
  • Auschwitz consisted of three separate camps: Auschwitz I, built on former military barracks, housed the infamous Block 10, where Nazi scientists conducted barbaric medical experiments.
    Natalia Romik / Madę by History, TIME, 27 Jan. 2025
  • On that day, I was attacked while defending the Capitol against invasion by thousands in a barbaric mob of rioters incited by Trump.
    Aquilino Gonell, New York Daily News, 26 Jan. 2025

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“Ungenteel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ungenteel. Accessed 15 Feb. 2025.

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