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Ungentle

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Un`gen´tle
a.1.Not gentle; lacking good breeding or delicacy; harsh.
Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind.
- Shak.
That ungentle flavor which distinguishes nearly all our native and uncultivated grapes.
- Hawthorne.
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Adj.1.Ungentleungentle - not of the nobility; "of ignoble (or ungentle) birth"; "untitled civilians"
untitled, ignoble
lowborn - of humble birth or origins; "a topsy-turvy society of lowborn rich and blue-blooded poor"


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THE ungentle laws and customs touched upon in this tale are historical, and the episodes which are used to illustrate them are also historical.
A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context
So you must try to be contented with making your name boyish, and playing brother to us girls," said Beth, stroking the rough head with a hand that all the dish washing and dusting in the world could not make ungentle in its touch.
Little Women by Alcott, Louisa May View in context
In a short pause which ensued, she had a fancy that she felt Miss Betsey touch her hair, and that with no ungentle hand; but, looking at her, in her timid hope, she found that lady sitting with the skirt of her dress tucked up, her hands folded on one knee, and her feet upon the fender, frowning at the fire.
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