How To Use Ungallant In A Sentence

  • We refuse to rise to this slur on reputations of the likes of her and other undomestic goddesses; suffice to say that the ungallant man should be so lucky.
  • It's ungallant to say so, but this remarkableness felt like a bonus. Times, Sunday Times
  • One might think this ungallant of him, but the simple truth was, Jake didn't know how to drive - let alone change a tyre.
  • ‘She'll try to sleep with you,’ they said, somewhat ungallantly.
  • Rumours circulated that other attempts to photograph the families together had been foiled when McConnell ungallantly jumped behind Wark.
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  • It seems almost ungallant to say this now, since she is being so pleasant and open, but I recall meeting her 10 years ago on the set of Shadowlands, when she insisted on doing her interview standing up and in the open air.
  • It was ungallant of the man to forward such a billet-doux, but harassment? Times, Sunday Times
  • An ungallant observer might wonder if it also employs some of the original cast. Times, Sunday Times
  • Neither gentleman is ungallant enough to so much as hint when discussing her performance that her voice has been dubbed.
  • I have been laying the sin of ungallantry upon you for the last three days. Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems
  • So let me ungallantly present a few awkward facts. Times, Sunday Times
  • You admired the Saxons and Danes in their veneration of the predictions of old women, whom the after ungallantry of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843
  • I think it is probably polite just to ignore Mr Jowett's rather ungallant assertion that I am naïve and his suggestion that I am a hypocrite.
  • Nowhere out of canny Scotland does his ungallantry debar him from the human ranks. Ballad Book
  • It was ungallant, unedifying ... and utterly compelling. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is sexist, retrogressive, mean-spirited and ungallant, and reflects very poorly on us as a nation. Times, Sunday Times
  • We don't wish to be ungallant, but we couldn't help noticing it was quite a large cushion. Times, Sunday Times
  • notmaxclifford - its just too ungallant to refer to Jenny as a 'harridan'. Its Goodbye to Humour.
  • Not nearly smelly enough either, he (rather ungallantly, to my mind) suggests. Times, Sunday Times
  • You have ungallantly declined to refrain from pointing at our citizens the rifles we sold you.
  • At one point, when it was just me and her and I had nothing I thought about betting big and bluffing her out, but decided that that would be ungallant on a first date.
  • That's just the lazy shiftlessness of your folks," responded Ezekiel with prompt ungallantry. The Argonauts of North Liberty
  • I am sorry to have to confess to so much ungallantry; but the only effort which I made, in common with the others, was to avoid her -- she was so hopelessly dense. A Boy's Voyage Round the World
  • As the Prince of Wales somewhat ungallantly observed in his toast at this week's state dinner, the American media hoped to marry him off to her.
  • The clerk pauses to greet two bulkily clad, dot-faced women wary of crossing the slippery road, but ungallantly fails to raise his regulation top-hat.
  • Surely you do not find me guilty of such ungallantry? Vendetta: a story of one forgotten
  • I thought it wise to leave any encounter with the lady to chance, and as the by-paths of the country-side were many and intricate, I intended, without ungallantry, to render the chance remote. The Guest of Quesnay
  • You would not be so ungallant as to refuse our hospitality.
  • What a repulsive, ungallant callback to a relationship! Times, Sunday Times
  • He is a very masculine person, except for this one feminine quality, for, if I may say it without ungallantry, there is a legend that no woman has ever understood the tariff. The Gentleman from Indiana
  • Trouble was, the ungallant fan did not return to reclaim her. Times, Sunday Times
  • We can't abide the suggestion ourselves, and we urge him to do the honourable thing and withdraw this ungallant insinuation forthwith, preferably before somebody's lawyers hear of it.
  • She establishes beyond doubt that he was a conceited careerist and ungallant husband, but doesn't necessarily prove that his work was ‘kitsch’ and ‘trash’.
  • Ungallantly, he is losing interest. Times, Sunday Times
  • Which reminds me that I have been guilty of an act of ungallantry, -- and faith! while you and I have been chatting, the lady, with Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes
  • She has also, one ungallant observer points out, lost a fair bit of weight. Times, Sunday Times
  • Critics complained that it was not so much autobiographical as it was confessional - and not a few thought he was ungallant in the extreme for sharing.

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