discourtesy

While there was "room to dispute" the allegations, "I sincerely apologise for the great discourtesy I have caused the public," she added.

From Barron's ● Dec. 3, 2025

A vice foreign minister called in Chinese Ambassador to South Korea Xing Haiming and strongly protested what South Korea called "diplomatic discourtesy", the South Korean foreign ministry said in a statement.

From Reuters ● Apr. 20, 2023

Coast Guard vessel was denied permission to make a port call, another apparently intentional discourtesy.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2022

Between January 2017 and November 2020, 829 complaints, internal and external, were lodged against Tacoma police employees, most for unsatisfactory performance or discourtesy.

From Seattle Times ● May 8, 2022

So when Doctor Warren, a little later, looked toward Johnny ready to smile, forgive his discourtesy, the boy looked away.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

The movie chokes on its own dreary discourtesies.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 2011

Many knowing Burmese were forced to hide a snicker when they heard that Chou had filed an official complaint about discourtesies appearing in the Burmese press.

From Time Magazine Archive

But it was the first air exposition that New York has had for almost eight years and 20,000 persons daily endured the active discourtesies of Grand Central Palace Exposition factotums to see the planes.

From Time Magazine Archive

C. Bagley, Teachers College, Columbia University, staunch worker for the Sterling-Reed Bill, evoked "a storm of applause" by denouncing Democratic and Republican discourtesies to education.

From Time Magazine Archive

While these may be the circumstances under which the letter was written and may be necessary for the identification of the letter, they are no less discourtesies to the reader.

From How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters) A Complete Guide to Correct Business and Personal Correspondence by Mary Owens Crowther