uncourtly

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In an uncourtly age, good manners can seem eccentric.

From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2016

So after trudging through the World's Fair, she boarded a local IRT train in the 90� heat, pursued by a rather uncourtly mob of reporters and photographers.

From Time Magazine Archive

This document had been sent to the Council at Berlin, and been returned by them for revision by the duke, and the softening of its rather uncourtly decisiveness of expression.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 by Various

And when we bleed on alien earth,   We'll call to mind how cheers of ours Proclaimed a loud uncourtly mirth   Amongst thy glowing orange bowers.

From Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys by Various

And to feel how feeble these trades are, it is only necessary to see the garments of the Romans, how coarse in material and how uncourtly in cut.

From Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge by Wylie, James Aitken