How To Use Ungentle In A Sentence
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The science of ungentle persuasion was never better understood.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Sir, said Sir Lamorak, now I understand your knighthood, it may not be false that all men say, for of your bounty, noblesse, and worship, of all knights ye are peerless, and for your courtesy and gentleness I showed you ungentleness, and that now me repenteth.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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Why not give players an amber card for ungentlemanly conduct and diving, building penalty points for an end of season ban.
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'This is only a poor, rough, ungentlemanly sort of shire, as far as I have seen it; and however they got on with the things I found that they called hounds I can't for the life of me imagine.
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour
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She may have many excellent qualities, and may do much good, but her ungentleness mars the beauty of her character.
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of ignoble (or ungentle) birth
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And yet from the beginning of our existence down to a time within the memory of babes England has distressed herself piteously over the ungentleness of our Connecticut Blue Laws.
Mark Twain: A Biography
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By that I don't mean that they wrote ungentle articles about their professors.
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Throughout, there is an austere, economical yet not ungentle intelligence.
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You won't do that to a girl, that is so ungentlemanly.
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From being merely awkward, he at last became uncouth; but from the natural goodness of his heart, the nearest to him soon lost sight of his ungentleness from the rectitude of his intentions, and, to parody the poet, saw his deportment in his feelings.
Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe — Volume 7
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And stranger than all was that, now that he did see that she was lost in love of him, there came to him, not sorrow and humility and abasement, but something else that he struggled in vain against -- something entirely strange and new, that, had he analysed it, he would have found to be petulance and irritation and resentment and ungentleness.
Widdershins
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It's as if they believe it would be ungentlemanly to question her financial role.
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He had been hard and ungentle with her, true; but there was another kind of strength in him, another kind of understanding, and underneath it all, another kind of gentleness and kindliness.
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I did full uncourteously unto Sir Launcelot, and full unknightly, and full knightly and courteously he did to me again; for an he had been as ungentle to me as I was to him, this day I had won no worship.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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Pak sports minister seeks MS Gill's help to recover Malik's impounded passport Hamilton says nothing 'ungentlemanly' about his 'weaving' tactics Headley's 3-run homer in 9th lifts Padres to 6-3 win over Diamondbacks Ethier hits two homers, including first slam; Dodgers bash Giants on Bochy's birthday
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She worried that she saw it merely as a game, and not the kind of skill one needed to survive in this ungentle world.
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Well, the first month he was here, we could hardly stand the sight of each other, and he was most ungentlemanly.
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‘Let's cut that,’ she tells him, looking at an image on the monitor showing a little boy, obviously ungentle, brandishing a toy machete.
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He was further described as ungentlemanly by a brace of spinsters who had been within earshot on the veranda the morning he had abused the Asquith roads, but their evidence was not looked upon as damning.
The Celebrity, Complete
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The last thing I saw was Eddie's pained face and then I was pulled from the car by uncaring, ungentle hands.
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But upon withdrawing our hand, we found none other than yourself, and shame, clutched in our ungentle grasp.
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For he became a call-boy; and as early as '93 he became a "vagabond" -- the law's ungentle term for an unlisted actor; and in' 94 a "regular" and properly and officially listed member of that (in those days) lightly valued and not much respected profession.
What Is Man? and Other Essays
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It was once considered ungentlemanly to even train for athletic events, so who knows what will happen.
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While his later behavior could conservatively be called ungentlemanly, I have no doubt Hilton wanted Carrie Prejean to give a different answer than she did, not because he had an "agenda," but because he wanted her to be kind as well as beautiful.
Michael Rowe: Regarding Miss California, At Least Anita Bryant Could Sing
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The ungentleness associated with the act of throwing something as precious as a heart to someone as opposed to ‘giving’, also matches the mood and tone.
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And who would have thought that mild-mannered Canadian fans of a famously gentleman's game could be so decidedly ungentlemanly in their reaction to curling on TV?
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In all the long course of his dealing with the life of English society, I can think of but two or three instances of ungentleness.
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Lambert said, `For a gentleman you can be very ungentlemanly, Edwin.
SPLITTING
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Hamilton says nothing 'ungentlemanly' about his 'weaving' tactics
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When Francis declared war on Spain in 1528, abrogating a treaty between the two countries, Charles accused the French ruler of ungentlemanly conduct.
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There's no fussing, no fist-pounding, no nay-saying, finger-pointing, whining or otherwise ungentlemanly or unlady-like conduct to be noted.
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Causing murders, although not technically prohibited by any FIFA edict, would almost certainly constitute ungentlemanly conduct.
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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.
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There seemed something raffish and ungentlemanly about dealing in used cars, at least to the members of the court.
TANK OF SERPENTS
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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.
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‘There was something ungentlemanly about a man who was so obviously on the make,’ says Ingrams.
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Even before those rumors started, people thought of him as coarse, ungentlemanly, and shallow.
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His student team was not allowed to kick for touch and the style was running and passing; ungentlemanly conduct was unthinkable.
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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.
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Its corners were ragged from the hands of many ungentle postmen, and the seal was second class.
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He was also found guilty of ungentlemanly conduct, but a charge of using foul and abusive language was not proven.
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But after revelations involving prostitutes, coupled with a spate of ungentlemanly scuffles on the football pitch his bankability could be in jeopardy.
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And Queen Guenevere held a court of her ladies to pass sentence on Sir Gawain for his ungentleness.
Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion
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And without Darrow's guidance, we knew not what danger the girl did or did not present to us, so we were watchful of her, and admittedly ungentle when she was given to undue noise or movement.
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He was also found guilty of ungentlemanly conduct, but a charge of using foul and abusive language was not proven.
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He pushed caution to such extremes that you can only call ungentlemanly where
The Torch and Other Tales
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Nobody would be as ungentlemanly as to call it blackmail, but they are open to political manipulation.
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In frame 15 the referee warned Holt for ungentlemanly conduct, in this case swearing.
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So you must try to be contented with making your name boyish, and playing brother to us girls, "said Beth, stroking the rough head with a hand that all the dish washing and dusting in the world could not make ungentle in its touch.
Little Women
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Ye have been named wrong, for ye have long been called a gentle knight, and as this day ye have showed me great ungentleness, for ye had almost brought me unto my death.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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Those tiny forks, often themselves shaped like corn-cobs, are twee, and a vain attempt to gentrify an ungentle food.
Times, Sunday Times
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Be all ungentleness and harm excluded from the temples of the Household Gods, but be those remembrances admitted with tender encouragement!
What Christmas is as we grow older, by Charles Dickens
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It is a matter for referees to enforce the regulations and deal with anything regarded as ungentlemanly conduct.
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What a mean and ungentlemanly act, to say the very least, is that of Mr. Seward in raking up a more or less apocryphal list of
Echoes of the Week
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It's the "ungentlemanly" thing that really gets my goat.
Local Alaskans See Sarah As Potent Asset But Vulnerable
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I thought for a while I heard a snigger from somewhere nearby, but realising that sniggering is an ungentlemanly thing to do, coming higher than smirking on the List of Unpleasant Traits, I knew I must be mistaken.
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Grummond's ungentlemanly conduct extended to his personal affairs.
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If I were quiet at the moment, I was conniving at their disorderly conduct; if, (as was frequently the case,) 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.
Agnes Grey
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For he became a call-boy; and as early as '93 he became a "vagabond" -- the law's ungentle term for an unlisted actor; and in' 94 a "regular" and properly and officially listed member of that (in those days) lightly-valued and not much respected profession.
Is Shakespeare Dead?
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I am a bastard, incorrigible, ungentlemanly and a beast.
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And with Danny Kilshaw nursing a neck injury and Lee Wingfield the target for some ungentlemanly play, East had two key players unable to make their usual massive contribution.
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The ball arrived at Millar's feet and without pausing for any form of ungentlemanly conduct, he cracked it in from 18 yards.
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I'm trying to find a suitable metaphor for the startling ungentleness with which the world is apparently greeting the triumphant completion of my undergraduate education.