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

She was never seen angry with the most unseasonable or uncourtly approach; she was never offended with the most impudent or importunate petitioner.

From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Aikin, Lucy

The Shah, enraged at this uncourtly criticism, gave orders that the court poet should be taken to the stable and tied up in the same stall with a donkey.

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 4 June 1906 by Various

It might seem uncourtly to suggest that this is "an abuse of the king's English," I shall therefore say no such thing.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold