uncourtly

Example Sentences

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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

When I had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess.

From Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations by Eliot, Charles William

The indirect election of the demarch is extremely unpopular, as it has no effect except to enable the king to exclude two popular but uncourtly citizens from every municipal office.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 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