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

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

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)

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