ungentle

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   not gentle, kind, or considerate; harsh

   His grip was firm but not ungentle.

2. 2
   adj

   not of the nobility

   of ignoble (or ungentle) birth

3. 3
   adj

   Showing a lack of gentleness, kindness or compassion.

   […] Moyses lawe, thoughe it were vngentle and sharpe […] yet it punnyshed thefte by the purse, and not wyth deathe.

4. 4
   adj

   Not acting according to accepted ethics or standards of behaviour.

   [T]his vngentle prince, and forgetfull frend, puttyng in obliuion, bothe the dutie of his obeysaunce, toward his souereigne and liege lorde, and the oth and promise, that he made to kyng Henry, […] turned his backe to his frend and kynsman, and loked to the French part, whiche neuer did hym honor nor profite, […]

From un- + gentle.

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