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his younger friends and students to paint in the robust, unfettered, ungenteel spirit of his favorite poet, Walt Whitman, and to be unafraid of offending...17 KB (2,150 words) - 13:38, 14 May 2024- him a pragmatical clinchpoop and kick his breech, which you might think ungenteel, perhaps you could tell him to judge the pudding by its fruit.' 'You mean...26 KB (3,238 words) - 07:01, 14 April 2024
mother, according to Richardson, "was also a good woman, of a family not ungenteel; but whose father and mother died in her infancy, within half-an-hour...48 KB (6,625 words) - 11:02, 10 February 2024
different. Then genteel middle-class ladies clamoured for reform, now ungenteel middle-class women are calling for revolution. The Eunuch ends with: "Privileged...131 KB (15,320 words) - 04:50, 11 May 2024
early period for demanding and experimenting with natural diction and "ungenteel and sometimes bluntly profane" American colloquialism. The predominant...10 KB (962 words) - 18:08, 27 February 2024
parts of the town have found it difficult to persuade them to become so ungenteel as to attend worship in the North End”; Parkman himself preferred to live...9 KB (1,122 words) - 16:18, 29 January 2024
, Jr. Henry B. Fuller of Chicago: The Ordeal of a Genteel Realist in Ungenteel America (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1974) Griffin, Constance M. Henry...11 KB (1,282 words) - 18:58, 22 September 2023
- From un- + genteel. ungenteel (comparative more ungenteel, superlative most ungenteel) Not genteel; coarse and ill-mannered. 1724, Daniel Defoe, Roxana:
- and bend the knee, To beg you’ll help them “give a ball!” Though it is ungenteel to think, For thought affects the nerves and brain! Yet oft we think of