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

With his pale, timid face, his bent shoulders, an inexpressibly ill-tied cravat, and rank, untrimmed whiskers, he was the most uncourtly person present.

From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Willis, N. Parker

While he regretted the idolatry of Jezebel, he may have censured what would be called the uncourtly intolerance or the bigoted zeal of the prophets, who uttered such denunciations and threatenings against the reigning family.

From Notable Women of Olden Time by Anonymous

I loved him with an eager and devoted affection, although his heart was not mine—poor simple uncourtly girl as I am—although it was another's.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various