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[ uhn-kawrt-lee, -kohrt- ] / ʌnˈkɔrt li, -ˈkoʊrt- / SEE SYNONYMS FOR uncourtly ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivenot courtly; rude. not conforming to the customs or usage of a royal court: an uncourtly lack of respect for hereditary rank. Origin of uncourtlyFirst recorded in 1590–1600; un-1 + courtly OTHER WORDS FROM uncourtlyun·court·li·ness, nounWords nearby uncourtlyuncorrupted, uncountable, uncounted, uncouple, uncourteous, uncourtly, uncouth, uncovenanted, uncover, uncovered, uncritical Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for uncourtlyThe queen, however, was quick to see what was gauche, and did not scruple to reprove them for uncourtly manners. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1|The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. Honest Burnet, with the uncourtly courage which distinguished him, ventured to remonstrate with the King. The History of England from the Accession of James II.|Thomas Babington Macaulay Again came an uncourtly monosyllabic 'No,' followed by another baffling silence. A Book of Quaker Saints|Lucy Violet Hodgkin No one thought any more of the uncourtly guest, who had come in like a shadow and vanished again into the starless night. The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci|Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky
Words related to uncourtlyawkward, clumsy, coarse, gawky, inelegant, lumbering, rusty, uncouth, ungainly, vulgar, wooden |