Adjective : a discourteous salesman. From Dictionary.com.
Oak, so long enjoyed, so discourteously withdrawn. From Wordnik.com. [The Inn at the Red Oak] Reference
Sumi sure had nerve, speaking to her clients discourteously. From Wordnik.com. [Pure Paradise] Reference
Yu Po tipped his body forward in a discourteously shallow bow. From Wordnik.com. [The Veiled Dragon]
Amazing Grace, you do me wrong to treat me thus discourteously. From Wordnik.com. [Amazing Grace, you do me wrong to treat me thus discourteously] Reference
Your paranoia has discourteously cost another translator two days. From Wordnik.com. [Caution is good, but trust is better « Musings from an overworked translator] Reference
Ambassador at Berlin, who after being treated discourteously by the. From Wordnik.com. [Paris War Days Diary of an American] Reference
Link alas, my love, you do me wrong, to cast me off discourteously. From Wordnik.com. [make me a beast half as brave] Reference
''Twould be a deadly disappointment for me did you seek so discourteously to leave.'. From Wordnik.com. [Three Hearts and Three Lions]
The question is whether the boys acted discourteously, not whether they had a right to do so. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Disagreement Need Not Equal Discourtesy] Reference
Cries went up from the crowd, which pushed and shoved discourteously at the circle of players. From Wordnik.com. [A Corridor in the Asylum] Reference
Mr Sidartha, I am very sorry that George Allen called you names and spoke to you discourteously. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » In a hole, Allen keeps digging.] Reference
Your father suffered extreme pain from his joints as he aged, yet he never treated me discourteously. From Wordnik.com. [The Mad Ship]
There, sitting on the seat, was the officer whom I had left so abruptly and discourteously the previous day. From Wordnik.com. [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference
He said Sire Galan had spoken up when this cataphract eyed him, saying he wondered why he gazed so discourteously. From Wordnik.com. [Wildfire] Reference
But if you think I have been discourteously reticent with you or anyone, I will go to the extreme limit of my custom. From Wordnik.com. [The Father Brown Omnibus]
Even on your own showing Dollmann treated you badly — discourteously, say: though you pretended not to have seen it. From Wordnik.com. [The Riddle of the Sands]
And I did change the rulings slightly, because playing it out of the water hazards would have been discourteously splashy. From Wordnik.com. [How To Play Miniature Golf] Reference
A question asked once too often and I reply discourteously to someone who does not perhaps notice the subtle rudeness of my reply. From Wordnik.com. [His Banner Over Me is Love] Reference
"I had better go and see to it myself, for any messenger would surely treat Havelok discourteously, and I should be full loath to do that.". From Wordnik.com. [Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race] Reference
"Monsieur Marche --" he began, almost discourteously. From Wordnik.com. [Lorraine A romance] Reference
Many writers have treated Dutch women discourteously. From Wordnik.com. [Holland, v. 1 (of 2)] Reference
"Talk not so wildly, Sir Baron," replied Montreal, discourteously. From Wordnik.com. [Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes] Reference
"We want no posse comitatus," he had said, somewhat discourteously. From Wordnik.com. [London Pride Or When the World Was Younger] Reference
The superintendents chatter and laugh discourteously among themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Wellesley] Reference
Mutimer rose and addressed his visitor easily indeed, but not discourteously. From Wordnik.com. [Demos] Reference
"I'm not sure I said anything that wasn't true," she returned discourteously. From Wordnik.com. [Rose O'Paradise] Reference
Madam, though you have discourteously read my letter, yet I pray you give it me. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Em] Reference
Maurice received her calmly and not discourteously, but held out no hopes of pardon. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
Knowing these customs, I hope I have never acted discourteously to the street beggars of. From Wordnik.com. [Venetian Life] Reference
"Ay," she answered, gruffly and discourteously, in a tone intended to quench interrogation. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Gibbie] Reference
Selpdorf was the indignant outburst of a girl who thought her friend discourteously treated. '. From Wordnik.com. [A Modern Mercenary] Reference
I have been discourteously reticent with you or anyone, I will go to the extreme limit of my custom. From Wordnik.com. [The Innocence of Father Brown] Reference
Don Benito Valls and his daughter, from whom he had so discourteously fled, without a word of excuse. From Wordnik.com. [The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan] Reference
But he did not feel profoundly degraded, as a young man should who has acted discourteously to a young lady. From Wordnik.com. [The Longest Journey] Reference
I remember thy face now; and, perchance, I deserve the disaster I met with in leaving thee so discourteously. From Wordnik.com. [The Last of the Barons — Complete] Reference
One could not refuse, discourteously and abruptly, a costly present like that; but it seemed a disaster to accept it. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete] Reference
Said Lily, impatiently and discourteously, "Who would not rather walk on such a night?" and she whispered to her aunt. From Wordnik.com. [Kenelm Chillingly — Complete] Reference
He replied discourteously, but he did reply; and if she could have stopped him thinking, her triumph would have been complete. From Wordnik.com. [The Longest Journey] Reference
"No," replied the general discourteously; and speaking in Hindostanee to his attendants, they walked to the door and opened it. From Wordnik.com. [Japhet in Search of a Father] Reference
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