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unˈcourtly, a.
[un-1 7.]
1. Not adapted or suited to the Court; esp. not sufficiently polished or refined:
a. Of persons, their attributes, etc.
1598Chapman Contn. Marlowe's Hero & Leander iii. 251 This euent vncourtly Hero thought Her inward guilt would in her lookes haue wrought. 1632Massinger & Field Fatal Dowry iii. i, You will find it safer Rather to be uncourtly than immodest. a1662Heylin Laud (1668) 57 A man of independent Fortune..but otherwise of an uncourtly disposition. 1759Sterne Tr. Shandy ii. ix, A little squat, uncourtly figure. 1838Emerson Misc. Papers, Milton Wks. (Bohn) III. 294 Lord Bacon..shrinks and falters before the absolute and uncourtly Puritan. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. IV. xxiv. 491 The retired and uncourtly scholar.
b. Of things or actions.
1640Habington Q. of Arragon i. i. B ij b, His Garbe was so uncourtly. 1727Pope Let. to Gay 16 Oct., I can only add a plain, uncourtly Speech. 1775Adair Amer. Ind. 341 The uncourtly leave he took of our gallant, and faithful old friends. 1827Pollok Course T. ix. 653 No longer hid by coarse uncourtly garb.
2. Not subservient to, not seeking to please, the Court.
1712Swift Cond. Allies Wks. 1751 II. 127 The present Lord Treasurer,..not entering into those refinements of paying the public money upon private considerations, hath been so uncourtly as to stop it. 1821W. H. Lyttelton in Corr. Lady Lyttelton ix. (1912) 237 The Archbishop's sermon [at the Coronation].., on the whole uncourtly enough to..diplease the courtiers. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xx. IV. 476 Two eminent orators, who had, during some years, been on the uncourtly side of every question. |