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ungallantly
adverb
disapprovinguk /ˌʌnˈɡæl.ənt.li/ us /ˌʌnˈɡæl.ənt.li/
in a way that is ungallant(= rude and unkind, especially towards women, and especially when in public):
Two weeks after they broke up, he announced, ungallantly, that he had never loved her.
"I'd much rather be talking to her than to you," he said ungallantly.
He ungallantly sold their story to a newspaper.
"The first thing I noticed about her was her enormous hands," he said ungallantly.
He ungallantly got into the lifeboat before all the women and children.
He left her to defend herself, whilst he ungallantly ran away.
My father ungallantly told us that my mother was a difficult person to live with.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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cheekily
cheekiness
cheeky
churlishly
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coarse-grained
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obnoxiously
obnoxiousness
offensively
offensiveness
pertly
sass
scatological
unceremonious
unpleasant
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