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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 discourteousplay

  Familiarity information: UNGALLANT used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UNGALLANT (adjective)


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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