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Recent Examples of ungallant
The ungallant fellow had probably made a quick, low-headed sneak, leaving the dames to shift for themselves.
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Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 23 Apr. 2026
Grubby, even criminal, tasks come easily to the unabashedly ungallant Sancho.
—Ew Staff Updated, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2024
The Times made ungallant references to Taft’s heft, and to the chief reason for his visit, to see his sister.
—Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2022
Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 23 Apr. 2026
Grubby, even criminal, tasks come easily to the unabashedly ungallant Sancho.
—Ew Staff Updated, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2024
The Times made ungallant references to Taft’s heft, and to the chief reason for his visit, to see his sister.
—Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ungallant
Adjective
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The lesser among them, the timorous, the doubtful, and the wavering, stood back, watching, waiting for some greater sign, savoring their doubts.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Oct. 2025
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The great danger of that moment was that a political backlash — abetted by a furious media and timorous politicians — would lead to a restoration of the policy of Roe.—
The Editors,
National Review,
24 June 2025
Adjective
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Some also have lost lawyers, dismayed by the pusillanimous behavior of their leaders.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
28 May 2025
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The second believed the United States could attain comprehensive security through military-technological means and saw diplomacy as a quixotic or pusillanimous enterprise that dishonored and weakened the country.—
A. Wess Mitchell,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The joke is on the cowardly villagers, and on Hoja himself, all of whom now have to live in a village terrorized by two war elephants instead of one.—
Perin Gürel,
The Conversation,
22 Apr. 2026
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Your writing is disgusting and your lack of confronting this team front office head on is an enormous act of cowardly proportions.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
19 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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That larger significance is remarkably unheroic and fatalistic.—
Gabriel Winslow-Yost,
Harper's Magazine,
23 Sep. 2024
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In the world of The Boys, based on the gleefully scabrous 2000s indie comic-book series of the same name by writer Garth Ennis and artist Darick Robertson, superheroes are real, pop-culture-dominating, and with rare exceptions, entirely unheroic.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
13 June 2024
Adjective
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Whoomp, whoomp bumped the coward heart.—
James Arthur,
The New York Review of Books,
5 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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As Rip held him, Beth plunged the knife into her dastardly brother, who had orchestrated their father's death, to finish Jamie off once and for all.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
15 May 2026
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That dastardly group loved pollution.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
6 May 2026
Adjective
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To strangers, Kay seemed demure, diffident, even shy, an impression her youthful appearance helped create.—
Charlotte Brooks,
Big Think,
13 Mar. 2026
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This small, diffident moment is one more reason to mourn his death.—
Judith Shulevitz,
The Atlantic,
22 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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This origin tale of Don Diego Vega, and his masked adventurer/avenger alter ego Zorro, righting wrongs against craven evildoers in early-day California, was adapted into a silent movie hit in 1920.—
Christopher Smith,
Oc Register,
12 May 2026
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It’s populated by craven, cowardly traitors.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
25 Mar. 2026
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“Ungallant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ungallant. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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