uncourtly

• “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.”

  Notable Women of Olden Time

• “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.”

  Thanks for Nothing

• “Achilles, conscious perhaps that it was his best policy not to drive his subaltern to extremity, lowered his tone somewhat in reply to the uncourtly note of the soldier, as if allowing something for the rude manners of one whom he considered as not easily matched among the”

  Count Robert of Paris

• “His attitude was easy and bold, but neither clownish nor uncourtly.”

  Count Robert of Paris

• “I had once addressed your Lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess.”

  The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.

• “Imagine to yourself a little squat, uncourtly figure of a Doctor”

  The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

• “But it was redeemed by a love for a most uncourtly idea: democracy.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Worldly Philosophers

• “You have very litle Inclination, to that noble and elegant Diversion, and whenever you have taken an Hand you have held it but aukwardly and played it, with a very uncourtly, and indifferent, Air.”

  Letter from John Adams to Abigail Smith, 7 May 1764

• “I had always felt aversion to my uncourtly patronymic, and its very common, if not plebeian praenomen.”

  Selections from Poe

• “Gardiner asked who that was; the duke answered, "his physician, who was somewhat uncourtly, as being new come from the university.”

  Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs

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