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ungenteel
adjective
old-fashioneduk /ˌʌn.dʒenˈtiːl/ us /ˌʌn.dʒenˈtiːl/
not typical of a high social class:
My mother was a good woman, who came from an ungenteel family.
When the young ladies arrived, their appearance was neither ungenteel nor unfashionable.
not polite, gentle, or graceful:
He believed that it was very ungenteel to be too curious.
He asked for his money, but said that he did not intend to be ungenteel.
She had a fear of being thought of as ungenteel.
She was accused of putting ungenteel ideas into people's heads.
It was very ungenteel behaviour to refuse to leave the room.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Class & class-consciousness in general
anti-bourgeois
anti-snob
arriviste
bougie
gentrification
gentrify
go/come down in the worldidiom
go/come up in the worldidiom
petit bourgeois
petty bourgeois
pleb
plebby
the bottom of the heapidiom
the gentry
the petite bourgeoisie
the upper crust
trailer trash
underclass
ungentrified
upper class
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Manners & levels of formality
Opposite
genteel
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