uncourteous
adjective
impolite; discourteous.
uncourteously
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a word derived from
uncourteous.
Example Sentences
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“That is uncourteously said,” said King Pellinore, “what? For no knight ne dreadeth for to speak his name openly, but for some reason of shame.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
There it can be said of every man, He suffereth long and is kind; envieth not; vaunteth not himself; is not puffed up; seeketh not his own; behaveth not uncourteously.
From The Gospel of the Hereafter by J. Paterson (John Paterson) Smyth
Excuse me, sir, for receiving you so uncourteously but I'm not yet dressed and am going to Elysium--a concert and ball--we can't be young but once.
From The Children of the World by Paul Heyse
I advise thee again, churlish Cecil, how that our Edmund Spenser, whom thou callest most uncourteously a whining whelp, hath good and solid reason for his complaint.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor
The housekeeper believed them all, if it was only to spite the doctor for having received her intelligence so uncourteously.
From Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists by Washington Irving
