ungentlemanly

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Recent Examples of ungentlemanly However, much of Keaton’s dialogue comes at such a fast clip, his ungentlemanly implications may go over young audience members’ heads. Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 5 Sep. 2024 None too pleased to see the guys fighting in such an ungentlemanly manner outside his shop, the all-too-proper proprietor, Christof (Warburton), appears at the door wearing a tweed vest, bowtie and old-timey flat cap. Peter Debruge, Variety, 31 July 2024 Who knows, maybe Ritchie will rewrite history to his liking if there’s another installment of ungentlemanly warfare. Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 19 Apr. 2024 The ungentlemanly agreement results in Albie getting grifted by Lucia, whose pimp dramatics were an obvious ruse from jump. Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2022 President Xi Jinping is conducting his disputes with the U.S. in an ungentlemanly manner. Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 16 Aug. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ungentlemanly
Adjective
  • Set on the glamorous European island, the film follows a rag-tag band of noble thieves who steal from the boorish elite tourists that destroy their home each summer.
    Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Nov. 2024
  • In half of this show, Allison appears in a sitcom version of her life, complete with a laugh track implicitly encouraging every boorish behavior of her husband, Kevin (Eric Petersen).
    Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2024
Adjective
  • Homer wasn’t fooling around: those who aid the beggar are rewarded, those who mistreat him—the loutish suitors who have long besieged Penelope—are killed.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 22 Nov. 2024
  • His loutish gimmick of the week is an obnoxious get-ready-with-me tutorial that the rest of his Chamber mates, unfortunately, can’t scroll past.
    Emma Sharpe, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • She’s still been busy, though, with all the ski trials and uncouth houseguests.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2024
  • That collab has produced six custom 1α bikes, each costing €19,900, and looking – to my uncouth eye, at least – almost exactly like standard 1α models (priced at €14,900) but with an ill-fitting and slightly fuzzy seat cover.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 12 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • The British series, which debuted in 2022, follows Oscar winner Gary Oldman’s churlish and disheveled Jackson Lamb as the leader of a team of disgraced and disowned MI5 agents scrappily and shabbily getting the job done.
    Trey Williams, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Asked about these comments, and responding to them, Tiger himself was churlish.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 18 July 2024
Adjective
  • Its members' firm repudiation of the unqualified and clownish Matt Gaetz for attorney general shows that its members can still stiffen their sinews and summon up the courage to curb President-elect Donald Trump's appetite for surrounding himself with sycophantic boobs.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Before news of the repression broke, many Western media stories about Chechen Republic Head Ramzan Kadyrov portrayed him as a clownish dictator obsessed with his Instagram account.
    Layla Taimienova, Foreign Affairs, 10 May 2017
Adjective
  • The show was so bawdy — almost vulgar in a really fun way.
    Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Read more Here's what else to know one week before Election Day: Trump is on damage duty: The former president's campaign is scrambling to distance itself from racist, vulgar, and sexist comments made by speakers at Trump's Sunday night rally at Madison Square Garden in New York.
    Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Pop listeners tend to have (often misguided) opinions about those two genres: Rap is crass, country is uncool.
    Justin Curto, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2024
  • What follows is an all-too-plausible scenario of crass consumerism gone wild, economic collapse and terror when all the apparats stop working.
    F.D. Flam, The Mercury News, 23 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • For their part, the Russians considered the Mizrahim—indeed, most Israelis—loud, uncultured boors.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Inserting two distinct forms of the gene into clusters of uncultured cells, the team discovered that the form of NOVA1 found in H. neanderthalensis created bumpier blobs of brain tissue when cultured, while the form of NOVA1 found in H. sapiens created smooth, spherical clumps.
    Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2023

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“Ungentlemanly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ungentlemanly. Accessed 14 Dec. 2024.

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