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Example sentences for "uncourteous"

Lexicographically close words:
uncountable; uncounted; uncouple; uncoupled; uncoupling; uncourtly; uncouth; uncouthly; uncouthness; uncovenanted
  1. Vanslyperken quailed under the keen eye and stern look of Ramsay, and obeyed the uncourteous order in silence; still he thought of revenge as he walked back to the boat and re-embarked in the cutter.

  2. It will be exceedingly, strangely uncourteous if they do not," said her father, with unusual warmth.

  3. I don't want to be uncourteous or exaggerated--besides, what is there in shaking hands?

  4. I am as uncourteous as a gust of wind, as abrupt as a flash of lightning, and as rude as the billows of the sea.

  5. He is often so uncourteous and abrupt in his manner as to incur the charge of seeming rudeness.

  6. A few years ago a Jew observed to me that there was no uncourteous reference to his people in my books, and asked how it happened.

  7. And where is the profit in discharging an uncourteous brakeman and hiring another just like him?

  8. He had left her, as he thought, utterly vanquished and prostrated by his determined but uncourteous usage of her; and here she was, present again on the field of battle as though she had never been even wounded.

  9. Clara had made the uncourteous proposition to her mother with the express intention of making it understood that she would have nothing to say to him.

  10. It would be most unbecoming that I should be turned out of a room in this palace by an uncourteous word from a parish clergyman.

  11. With that came Sir Palomides, and said, "Thou uncourteous knight, what seekest thou here?

  12. Thou art uncourteous to come upon a lady so suddenly; therefore withdraw thee.

  13. And then he and the damsel rode away together; and when she chid him again he said, "Damsel, you are uncourteous to rebuke me as you do.

  14. I am no hermit, Mrs. Graham - though I own it looks rather like it to absent myself in this uncourteous fashion from my guests.

  15. Fie, fie, said she, Sir knight, ye are uncourteous to set a kitchen page afore me; him beseemeth better to stick a swine than to sit afore a damosel of high parage.

  16. And if Sir Pelleas had been as uncourteous to you as ye have been to him ye had been a dead knight; but ye have deceived me and betrayed me falsely, that all ladies and damosels may beware by you and me.

  17. No, madam, I regret to say that your fixed determination to disobey me, and be uncourteous and disagreeable, is carried out in the very letter and spirit.

  18. Shame you not for this unnatural alliance; remember whom you take withal into your puny councils, and reconsider your uncourteous ways.

  19. Knight thou] art but dead, If thou recall not thy uncourteous terms.

  20. A gentle Lady flying the embrace Of some uncourteous Knight, I will relieve her.

  21. She had allowed herself to be carried into superlatives, and had almost been uncourteous to Lord Fawn.

  22. What could have possessed Major Harper to be guilty of such uncourteous forgetfulness?

  23. Many a man will speak at times to his wife in a most unkind and even uncourteous manner, in a manner in which he would not dare to speak to any one else; I know he may not mean unkindness, but is it not a wrong?

  24. And it so happened that just at that time an uncourteous knight had offered Queen Guenever a gross insult.

  25. The original conception, its natural harmony, and the result, to my own mind is a demonstrative truth, which I presume it right to make known, though perhaps at the hazard of unpleasant if not uncourteous remarks.

  26. Another pause ensued--and, finding I had got all from Mr. Thornton and his uncourteous guest that I was likely to do, I took my hat and my departure.

  27. Meanwhile, gentle reader, during the two years which I purpose devoting to solitude and study, I shall not be so occupied with my fields and folios, as to render me uncourteous to thee.

  28. If I have been uncourteous I beg your pardon.

  29. I will not have you uncourteous to Mr. Kennedy.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "uncourteous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    discourteous; disrespectful; impolite; insolent; rude; unaccommodating; uncivil; ungallant; ungracious