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"When I endeavoured to make a contribution to this debate, I was discourteously dismissed by Baroness Bloomfield on the grounds that she suggested I'd been asleep during the minister's contribution," Lord Young said.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2022

He was later charged with acting discourteously toward a colleague.

From Washington Post

In a rage the Governor General re leased to the Press statements that he has been "discourteously treated" ever since the de Valera Cabinet came in.

From Time Magazine Archive

Although married for more than two years, they have been obliged by rigid etiquet to have no children, lest they should have a son discourteously ahead of the Emperor.

From Time Magazine Archive

The self-confident fifteen-year-old paid no heed to their discontent and discourteously stormed out.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady