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UNGALLANT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ungallant mean?
• UNGALLANT (adjective)
The adjective UNGALLANT has 1 sense:
1. offensively discourteous
Familiarity information: UNGALLANT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Offensively discourteous
Synonyms:
caddish; unchivalrous; ungallant
Similar:
discourteous (showing no courtesy; rude)
Context examples
Oh, most ungallant clerk!
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was invited to contribute any really good enigmas, charades, or conundrums that he might recollect; and she had the pleasure of seeing him most intently at work with his recollections; and at the same time, as she could perceive, most earnestly careful that nothing ungallant, nothing that did not breathe a compliment to the sex should pass his lips.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
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