discourteously

adv

discourteously

adv

Etymology From discourteous + -ly.

1

In a discourteous manner.

  • Alas my loue, ye do me wrong, to cast me off discurteously: And I haue loued you so long, Delighting in your companie.1878 [1584], Clement Robinson, “A new Courtly Sonet, of the Lady Greensleeues” (stanza 1), in Edward Arber, editor, A Handful of Pleasant Delights:
  • Had he acted discourteously to his bedmaker or his gyp, he would have minded just as much … .1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, I [Uniform ed., p. 14]

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