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Meanings of ungentle in anglès

Not of the nobility.

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Examples for "ignoble"
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Economic backwardness was taken as holy simplicity; ignoble, craven subservience as piety.
The Irish Times
2
The entire guard was piled in an ignoble mass on the floor.
A Poor Wise Man
3
It's quite an ignoble beginning to the tale of a national hero!
The Irish Times
4
The act of slaughter is always ignoble; sometimes necessary, but always ignoble.
Under Fire: The Story of a Squad
5
Then it is ignoble in you to talk to me of spies.
Can You Forgive Her?
1
So far, the book is untitled and the publication date is 2014.
The Irish Times
2
The untitled game could be in stores as soon as late 2008.
Reuters
3
The untitled comedy, from writer Laura House, has received a script commitment.
Reuters
4
He is working on a third novel, which is as yet untitled.
The new yorker
5
The as-yet-untitled series has just started casting, and no airdate is set.
Reuters
Usage of ungentle in anglès
1
What we need here is a tamer for vicious and ungentle bipeds.
The Rose in the Ring
2
And yet, if the ungentle king was not enamoured, he was impressed.
Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volum...
3
His speech, though rough of purport, had not been ungentle of delivery.
The Trampling of the Lilies
4
The man ducked his gray head; apparently my tone had been ungentle.
Seraphina
5
The knights bought; mixing, however, ungentle gibes with their good coin.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844
6
The good king was no ungentle boor: he spoke them fair and graciously.
The Junior Classics, Volume 4: Heroes and heroines of chivalry
7
He was roused by a vigorous but not ungentle tap upon the shoulder.
Broken to the Plow / A Novel
8
Gentle, humble, merciful towards sons of life; dark, ungentle towards sons of death.
The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick / Including the Life by ...
9
The swordsman nodded brusquely, and Raif felt an ungentle hand upon his arm.
A Fortress of Grey Ice
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But they were an ungentle reminder that Val deserved these things and-obviously-Ididn't
High on arrival
11
The ungentle soul, the inconsiderate, unsympathetic nature, cannot do anything else.
Addresses by Henry Drummond
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Yet prejudices so obstinate have not made him an ungentle or impracticable companion.
Twice-Told Tales
13
No, my ungentle reader, not all this bombast at sixteen and a half.
The Three Clerks
14
Can it be that it was designed and manufactured for such ungentle work?
The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
15
And Montgomery by a not ungentle effort released himself from his wife's embrace.
The Just and the Unjust
16
The 'bus guard was shaking Lanyard's arm with an ungentle hand.
The False Faces: Further Adventures from the History of the Lone...
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