uncourtliness
English
Etymology
uncourtly + -ness
Noun
uncourtliness (uncountable)
- Lack of courtliness
- Synonyms: rudeness, rusticity, coarseness
- 1710, John Dryden, The Whig-Examiner No. 5
- notwithstanding the uncourtliness of their phrases , the sense was very honest
Antonyms
- courtliness
References
- uncourtliness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913