Obs. [UN-1 7. Cf. MDu. ongoedelijc- (Du. ongoedelijk), MLG. ungûtlik, -gôtlik, MHG. unguotlich, -güetlich (G. ungütlich).]

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  1.  Lacking goodness; bad, wicked: a. Of persons.

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1390.  Gower, Conf., I. 293. He is that ilke ungoodlieste Which many a lusti love hath twinned. Ibid., II. 338. Ha, thou ungoodlich ypocrite.

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1432.  Paston Lett., I. 32. The whiche lak or defaulte mighte be caused by ungodely or unvertuous men.

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1472.  Coventry Leet Bk., 374. Wher ther be diuers and many vagabundes, and vngoodly & ille disposed persones.

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1553.  Becon, Reliques of Rome (1563), 159. This is ye goodly Godlye Catholyke doctrine wherwith the vngoodly vngodly Papists infecte the mindes of such Christians as are simple.

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  b.  Of actions, language, etc.

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1390.  Gower, Conf., II. 333. Which thing, mi Sone, I thee forbede, For it is an ungoodly dede.

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1412–20.  Lydg., Chron. Troy, III. 3352. Epistrophus … Rebuked hym in vngoodly wyse.

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1455.  T. Beckington, Corr. (Rolls), II. 342. That I sholde haue vttered and seid vngoodly langage touchynge yor noble persone.

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1530.  in W. H. Turner, Select. Rec. Oxford (1880), 84. For his ungoodly maner so then usid to the comyssarie [he] did send hym to prison.

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  2.  Uncomely; unhandsome.

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1495.  Trevisa’s Barth. De P. R., V. xiii. 42. Yf the nose lackyth, all ye other dele of ye face is ye more vngoodly & vnsemely.

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1519.  Horman, Vulg., 14 b. No man that … hath a mahayme or a blemmysshe, that maketh hym vngoodly, shall take orders.

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1549.  Coverdale, etc., Erasm. Par. 1 Cor. 34. Suche [parts] as seme vngoodly, to them ioyne we some comly vesture.

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