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Discourteously

Discourteous \Dis*cour"te*ous\ (?; see Courteous, 277), a. Uncivil; rude; wanting in courtesy or good manners; uncourteous. -- Dis*cour"te*ous*ly, adv. -- Dis*cour"te*ous*ness, n.

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discourteously

adv. In a discourteous manner.

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discourteously

adv. in an impolite manner; "he treated her impolitely" [syn: impolitely, rudely, showing bad manners] [ant: politely, politely]

Usage examples of "discourteously".

Yet through it all, true to his promise, Adams had shown no anger or acted discourteously to anyone.

In any event, the investigator himself was under current investigation by a Senate subcommittee and after four years of national distress, the United States Senate in its ponderous way was now upon the verge of censuring McCarthy for having behaved discourteously in their house.

Because, he confided to me at the top of his voice, he was merely a visitor in New Tammany College, and much as he objected to its curricular policies, he did not wish to act discourteously -- besides, he'd not forgotten the consequence of his spree in the Nikolayan Zoo.