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Meanings of unchivalrous in inglês

Offensively discourteous.

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Not adhering to the high moral standards expected of a gentleman.

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Examples for "indecent"
Examples for "indecent"
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Oil giants will be forced to change their indecent behavior, he said.
Reuters
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Seven students were charged with indecent exposure after a game last year.
The Irish Times
3
Stop stemming! but you don't know the Spanish words for indecent exposure.
Rock and Ice Magazine
4
They were being questioned about indecent images of children on the Internet.
The Irish Times
5
Saint Augustine ridiculed one of the Roman gods in grossly indecent language.
Prisoner for Blasphemy
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Bull, stop growling; you are very impolite; the gentleman is in distress.
The Puppet Crown
2
And, being police, you're totally used to being considered rude and impolite.
Whispers Under Ground
3
Jack gathered that the question was an impolite one, by Armenian standards.
The confusion
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I decided it was too impolite not to respond and stepped forward.
Halo
5
Marta found the young woman's insistence both unusual and bordering on impolite.
Inferno
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Simply being alive at that moment seemed, in some indefinable way, ungentlemanly.
Jonathan strange and mr norrell
2
This one was fishing under the bridge and he was most ungentlemanly.
Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions
3
He then is so ungentlemanly as to threaten her with corporal punishment.
Ten Great Religions: An Essay in Comparative Theology
4
What he was doing, he told himself, was extremely ungentlemanly, horribly underbred.
Crome Yellow
5
One by-law runs: 'All profane, vulgar, or ungentlemanly talk shall be discountenanced.'
Old John Brown, the man whose soul is marching on
Usage of unchivalrous in inglês
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And have it said that I won by treachery, with an unchivalrous attack?
A clash of kings
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The inflated state of the unchivalrous middle, denominated Manchester, terrified him.
Beauchamp's Career — Volume 1
3
Every time I thumped your brother's shield, I felt unchivalrous.
A feast for crows
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I have never read such unchivalrous sentiments in my life-froma man, I mean.
A Pair of Blue Eyes
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Such a bad pupil, Monsieur!-sothankless, cold-hearted, unchivalrous, unforgiving!
Villette
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The wrath against this unchivalrous wickedness increased mightily.
Legends of the Rhine
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I had been guilty of most unchivalrous conduct toward one of the girls of St. Agatha's.
The House of a Thousand Candles
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The man who is unchivalrous to a woman-
Where Angels Fear to Tread
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General Buckner felt himself "compelled to accept the ungenerous and unchivalrous terms" which General Grant proposed.
Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 / From Lincoln to Garfield, wit...
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Buckner replied that circumstances compelled him "to accept the ungenerous and unchivalrous terms which you propose."
Pushing to the Front
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I should have been left, as Augustus was unchivalrous enough to tell me this morning, 'in the gutter.'
The Reflections of Ambrosine: A Novel
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But without indulging in unchivalrous reflections we may draw certain morals from it of both immediate and ultimate applicability.
The Soul of the Far East
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Ladies, forgive the unchivalrous doubt.
Put Yourself in His Place
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But to smite a creature conspicuously your inferior in fortune-past ,present ,andprospective-isunchivalrous, not to say downright mean-spirited.
Deadham Hard: A Romance
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It looks very unchivalrous.
Chance: A Tale in Two Parts
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He was not unchivalrous.
The Hunted Woman
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