Frankly, I think the discourtesy is on the side of the students objecting to the U.S. flag. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Disagreement Need Not Equal Discourtesy] Reference
Rosie Winterton accused the government of "discourtesy" to the Commons after Sir. From Wordnik.com. [Epolitix News] Reference
The discourtesy of this bank is beyond all limits. From Wordnik.com. [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference
It was this last discourtesy that roused her to rebel. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
Hadria had to explain the apparent discourtesy as best she could. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
There is no special courtesy or discourtesy in any of these methods. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Business Etiquette] Reference
It is the acme of discourtesy to keep any one waiting in this manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Business Etiquette] Reference
Stings of every kind must be run for theft, brutality and discourtesy. From Wordnik.com. [Police Must Be Held Accountable] Reference
But this does not protect him always from discourtesy in other people. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Business Etiquette] Reference
But, equally, I am too old to be treated with discourtesy and disrespect. From Wordnik.com. [The Governess] Reference
There was no absolute discourtesy; they simply did not want to be introduced. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898] Reference
The discourtesy which you profess to discover in my letter I utterly disclaim. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference
Such an effort would represent an act of discourtesy on the part of the United States. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army] Reference
And by the same token it is the one, generally speaking, where there is most discourtesy. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Business Etiquette] Reference
Some of them looked up and made faces at Beth, but she did not acknowledge the discourtesy. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
Without being guilty of any discourtesy, you contrived to make me feel that I was abhorrent. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
On the other hand, letters may be so brief as to produce an impression of abrupt discourtesy. From Wordnik.com. [How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters) A Complete Guide to Correct Business and Personal Correspondence] Reference
Col. Moreno de Vascos, called on me, indignant and angry that I should suffer such discourtesy. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
And a lack of understanding, which is a form of ignorance, is the cause of nearly all discourtesy. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Business Etiquette] Reference
The old woman began to sob in her upraised sleeve, apologizing through her tears for the discourtesy. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Painter] Reference
I excused the discourtesy, under the circumstances, and was heartily sorry to part from him at London. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, March 2, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
It is an act of discourtesy for a man not to request a dance of a woman to whom he has been introduced. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Good Manners; a Guide to Polite Usage for All Social Functions] Reference
If you have been guilty of bad judgment in not sending earlier for aid, don't add discourtesy to your sins. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
Sidney Prale's smile weakened a bit as he turned around, but there was nothing of discourtesy in his manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Brand of Silence A Detective Story] Reference
But she refused to be driven out of the Poketown School by the unkindness and discourtesy of the larger girls. From Wordnik.com. [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference
By fining him £1,000, his county chairman has made the mistake of putting a financial tariff on gross discourtesy. From Wordnik.com. [David Beckham shows Wayne Rooney how to survive the circus] Reference
Our voices as we called the cartes seemed now and then to me like a discourtesy to the peace and order of the night. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
But then, the poem was sufficient excuse for that discourtesy, Berta assured herself in anxiety to justify her behavior. From Wordnik.com. [Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls] Reference
Greengates to implore her pardon for his discourtesy, and to beg her to receive him back into her most desirable favour. From Wordnik.com. [Afterwards] Reference
The ceremony was one of absolute compulsion, and could not be avoided without discourtesy to the prince and his countrymen. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
"And she had even the discourtesy to walk away without waiting to see whether the guest of her house was going home or not.". From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
It is opposed to everything like unseemly familiarity, discourtesy of treatment, insolence in reply, or deliberate defiance. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Conduct] Reference
"If you are not sorry you slapped Ray you ought to be, because such an act is the height of discourtesy," declared the doctor. From Wordnik.com. [Rosemary] Reference
It would be difficult to find in recorded history a greater discourtesy to a friendly power, for Austria was not at war with Russia. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe] Reference
In the face of the discourtesy which Miss Harris had just exhibited she thought Mr. Thornton's eloquent defence in rather bad taste. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Secret] Reference
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