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

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II by Lodge, Henry Cabot

The Princess did not seem to notice this last uncourtly speech.

From The Little Schoolmaster Mark A Spiritual Romance by Shorthouse, J. H.

One of these new and uncourtly men excited laughter by affecting a princely state and splendour of demeanour and equipage.

From The History of Napoleon Buonaparte by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)