"ungenteel" meaning in English

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          "word": "ungenteelly"
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          "ref": "1724, Daniel Defoe, Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress:",
          "text": "He was a jolly, handsome fellow, as any woman need wish for a companion; tall and well made; rather a little too large, but not so as to be ungenteel; he danced well, which I think was the first thing that brought us together.",
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          "text": "“Well, it would serve to cure him of an absurd practice of never asking a question at an inn, which he had adopted, when quite a young man, on the principal of its being very ungenteel to be curious. […]”",
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          "text": "1845, Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth, Chirp the Second,\nIf I might be allowed to mention a young lady’s legs on any terms, I would observe of Miss Slowboy’s that there was a fatality about them which rendered them singularly liable to be grazed; and that she never effected the smallest ascent or descent without recording the circumstance upon them with a notch, as Robinson Crusoe marked the days upon his wooden calendar. But, as this might be considered ungenteel, I’ll think of it."
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          "text": "But we are not going to leave these two people long in such a low and ungenteel station of life. Better days, as far as worldly prosperity went, were in store for both.",
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          "text": "The paint on the walls was cracked and peeling. It had an air of ungenteel decay.",
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          "sense": "not genteel",
          "word": "mì-cheanalta"
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          "code": "gd",
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          "sense": "not genteel",
          "word": "mì-eireachdail"
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          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "not genteel",
          "word": "mì-innealta"
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          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "not genteel",
          "word": "mì-uasal"
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      "word": "mì-cheanalta"
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      "sense": "not genteel",
      "word": "mì-innealta"
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      "sense": "not genteel",
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