ungallant

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Recent Examples of ungallant Grubby, even criminal, tasks come easily to the unabashedly ungallant Sancho. Ew Staff Updated, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2024 The Times made ungallant references to Taft’s heft, and to the chief reason for his visit, to see his sister. Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ungallant
Adjective
  • Phillips has made a jukebox spectacle that’s bold in conception but oddly cautious, even timorous, in execution.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
  • For years now, U.S. policy toward Syria has been indecisive and timorous, allowing pro-Assad forces to gain ground.
    Steven A. Cook, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2016
Adjective
  • Mark Kelly Americans who are rightfully appalled by the pusillanimous response to anti-Semitism on college campuses have been pulling their donations and calling for restrictions on anti-Israel student groups.
    Arthur Levitt, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Those clumsy tales revealed Chazelle’s pusillanimous career ambitions.
    Armond White, National Review, 13 Jan. 2023
Adjective
  • During an interview on the debut episode of Sean with Sean Hannity on Tuesday, December 3, the actor admitted that sending a breakup letter to now-wife Jennifer Flavin via FedEx in 1994 was a cowardly move.
    Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Build Hagrid’s hut, play as the cowardly dog Fang, and help the famous trio find out what Draco Malfoy is up to.
    Mia Huelsbeck, People.com, 1 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • That larger significance is remarkably unheroic and fatalistic.
    Gabriel Winslow-Yost, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
  • In the world of The Boys, based on the gleefully scabrous 2000s indie comic-book series of the same name by writer Garth Ennis and artist Darick Robertson, superheroes are real, pop-culture-dominating, and with rare exceptions, entirely unheroic.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2024
Adjective
  • LifeLock’s Home Title Monitoring warns of several variations of that dastardly attack.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 27 Nov. 2024
  • If the evildoers weren’t readily allowed access to the AI, the barrier to their dastardly ways would be stiffened.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Consider Chatterton’s Fields of This, an exemplary case study, as the hazy slacker rock the Oxnard, California, duo of guitarist-keyboardist Brock Pierce and multi-instrumentalist Logan Scrivner dream up is brash yet diffident.
    Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 4 Dec. 2024
  • In the light of Rifkin’s diffident anguish, the heartfelt whimsy of these scenes plays like Allen’s own nostalgic reminiscence of his early, funny stuff—and of the way that his life used to be.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2024
Adjective
  • Kyle Beach’s courage and humanity is in sharp contrast with the craven men who failed him (Photo: Jonathan Daniel / Getty Images) Get all-access to exclusive stories.
    Mark Lazerus, The Athletic, 24 July 2024
  • Since then, Trump has regularly lobbed attacks at the military and its top leaders, accusing them of being politically craven and operationally incompetent.
    Ronald R. Krebs, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2021
Adjective
  • Dance sections lacked charm; lyric passages were spiritless; the klezmer episodes in the third movement were strictly goyish.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Yet the club dropped the contest in spiritless fashion, 6-2.
    Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2023

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“Ungallant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ungallant. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.

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