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  • adverb In an ungallant way.

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Examples

  • "And the very next instant you froze up," I charged ungallantly.

    CHAPTER XXXVII 2010

  • Both Marr and pompous ex-Labour leader (and trougher extraordinaire) Lord Kinnock rounded on her (ungallantly) over Golligate.

    OPEN THREAD. 2009

  • I am really sorry that I said, rather ungallantly, that she intervened on me stupidly last week.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Glyn Davies 2006

  • While I gazed, ungallantly gawking, suddenly there came a sloshing,

    clashpunk Diary Entry clashpunk 2005

  • As you so ungallantly point out, she is neither very young nor pretty, and definitely not your cup of tea.

    Not Once But Twice Neels, Betty 1981

  • (I will give you the day, June 14th, but you would not wish me ungallantly to reveal the year?)

    Britain in 1971 1971

  • "Well, maybe you call that fun, but I should say it was pretty hard work," said Frank, ungallantly.

    The Outdoor Girls on Pine Island Or, A Cave and What It Contained Laura Lee Hope

  • Paul would most certainly have ungallantly bolted out of the breach had that been possible; but the people cheered the local manager cordially, and he, stepping back into the gloom of the stage, found Paul shivering there, and tried to hearten him.

    Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray

  • But, I verily believe, running the risk of speaking very ungallantly, that there is not one in thirty, fifty, or perhaps a hundred of your sex, who have the slightest idea of exerting their talents for the benefit of others.

    Woman As She Should Be or, Agnes Wiltshire Mary E. Herbert

  • The robbers then proceeded to the girl's chamber, very ungallantly took her gold ear-rings, and by threatening her and her uncle with death, got possession of 300 francs.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 369, May 9, 1829 Various

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  • "Stow that!" he broke in ungallantly. --from the Wordnik example sentences.

    October 11, 2011