[
UK
/ʌndʒˈɛntəl/
]
ADJECTIVE
-
not of the nobility
untitled civilians
of ignoble (or ungentle) birth
How To Use ungentle In A Sentence
- In frame 15 the referee warned Holt for ungentlemanly conduct, in this case swearing.
- I concentrated on sliding into his life, his history, his sacred imperial flesh, flesh that a person could be killed on the spot for touching with their eyes, let alone his dirty ungentle hands.
- There seemed something raffish and ungentlemanly about dealing in used cars, at least to the members of the court. TANK OF SERPENTS
- I happened to be exalting my voice to enforce order, I was using undue violence, and setting the girls a bad example by such ungentleness of tone and language.
- ‘There was something ungentlemanly about a man who was so obviously on the make,’ says Ingrams.
- Even before those rumors started, people thought of him as coarse, ungentlemanly, and shallow.
- His student team was not allowed to kick for touch and the style was running and passing; ungentlemanly conduct was unthinkable.
- In terms rather more ungentle than mine, he says, among other things, that I should have written him privately about his public and loud positions on these matters.
- Its corners were ragged from the hands of many ungentle postmen, and the seal was second class.
- He was also found guilty of ungentlemanly conduct, but a charge of using foul and abusive language was not proven.