ungenteel

adjective

un·​gen·​teel ˌən-jen-ˈtēl 

: not genteel : lacking in courtesy or refinement : inelegant

The young ladies arrived: their appearance was by no means ungenteel or unfashionable.

—Jane Austen

ungenteelly adverb

… asks you to "pick up after your pet"—without being ungenteelly specific about what is to be picked up.

—Theo Dombrowski

Examples of ungenteel in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

White outfits became the dress code at Wimbledon in the eighteen-eighties, because it was believed that white best masked ungenteel perspiration. —Gerald Marzorati, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2022

Word History

First Known Use

1633, in the meaning defined above