Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not gentle; harsh; rough; rude; ill-bred; impolite.
- Not noble; plebeian.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not gentle; lacking good breeding or delicacy; harsh.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
gentle .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not of the nobility
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Examples
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Ireland enters its second year in the ungentle embrace of its bailout providers facing a further €3.8 billion $5 billion of budget cuts.
Ireland Enduring a Long Age of Austerity Paul Hannon 2011
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Why so gentle, Eli, when the world is so ungentle?
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They joined the sisters on the platform, and their hands were big and ungentle as they grabbed Claudia.
Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011
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It's a long list, ranging from codes of practice on retailing and age ratings on music videos to automatic blocks on computers and no sex before the watershed, another opportunity for the Daily Mail to feature its favourite stills from last year's X Factor final, featuring the ungentle writhing of Christina Aguilera and Rihanna.
Powerless to protect our kids? Oh, do grow up | Barbara Ellen 2011
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They joined the sisters on the platform, and their hands were big and ungentle as they grabbed Claudia.
Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011
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They joined the sisters on the platform, and their hands were big and ungentle as they grabbed Claudia.
Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011
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They joined the sisters on the platform, and their hands were big and ungentle as they grabbed Claudia.
Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011
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The hands that came were cold and hard, urgent and ungentle.
excerpt from a forthcoming novel Frank Hinton 2011
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But more often than not, he ends up alone and exquisitely vulnerable, in desperate need of food and clothing, at the mercy of the police and an ungentle society.
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Hint to all you ungentle gents of the movie world: your Freudian slips are showing.
“Crying Girl” DVD makes me cry, but not for the obvious reason « Gender Across Borders 2010
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