(UN-1 7.)
1562. Legh, Armory, 122. There are nyne rebatings of armes, which for nyne sondry vngentilmanly dedes done, are resembled as hereafter followeth.
1614. B. Jonson, Barth. Fair, I. iii. What an vnmercifull companion art thou to quit thy lodging at such vngentlemanly houres!
1684. Otway, Atheist, V. It is an opportunity I should make no ungentlemanly use of.
1741. Richardson, Pamela (ed. 3), I. 84. I can stoop to the ordinariest Work of your Scullions,… sooner than bear such ungentlemanly Imputations.
1825. T. Hook, Sayings, Ser. II. III. 303. This letter produced an abusive, vulgar, and ungentlemanly answer.
1881. W. G. Ward, Ess. Philos. Theism (1884), II. 286. They thought it thoroughly ungentlemanly so to speak in the presence of ladies.
Hence Ungentlemanly v.
1834. Medwin, Angler in Wales, II. 117. There were some ungentlemanlying themselves, by giving it against the horse.
