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  • noun Ungallant behaviour.

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Examples

  • You admired the Saxons and Danes in their veneration of the predictions of old women, whom the after ungallantry of

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 Various

  • Which reminds me that I have been guilty of an act of ungallantry, -- and faith! while you and I have been chatting, the lady, with

    Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes James Branch Cabell 1918

  • He is a very masculine person, except for this one feminine quality, for, if I may say it without ungallantry, there is a legend that no woman has ever understood the tariff.

    The Gentleman from Indiana Booth Tarkington 1907

  • I thought it wise to leave any encounter with the lady to chance, and as the by-paths of the country-side were many and intricate, I intended, without ungallantry, to render the chance remote.

    The Guest of Quesnay Booth Tarkington 1907

  • Nowhere out of canny Scotland does his ungallantry debar him from the human ranks.

    Ballad Book Katherine Lee Bates 1894

  • Surely you do not find me guilty of such ungallantry?

    Vendetta: a story of one forgotten Marie Corelli 1889

  • "That's just the lazy shiftlessness of your folks," responded Ezekiel with prompt ungallantry.

    The Argonauts of North Liberty Bret Harte 1869

  • I am sorry to have to confess to so much ungallantry; but the only effort which I made, in common with the others, was to avoid her -- she was so hopelessly dense.

    A Boy's Voyage Round the World Samuel Smiles 1858

  • I have been laying the sin of ungallantry upon you for the last three days. "

    Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems Effie Afton 1858

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