ingratiating, winning; gentle, mild; good-humored, cordial, gracious,
affable, familiar; neighborly.
diplomatic, tactful, politic; artful &c. 702.
Adv. courteously &c. adj.; with a good grace; with open arms, with
outstretched arms; a bras ouverts[Fr]; suaviter in modo[Fr], in good humor.
Int. hail! welcome! well met! ave! all hail! good day, good morrow!
Godspeed! pax vobiscum[Lat]! may your shadow never be less!
Phr. Tien de plus estimable que la ceremonie[Fr]; “the very pink of
courtesy” [Romeo and Juliet].
#895. Discourtesy.—
N. discourtesy;ill breeding; ill manners, bad
manners, ungainly manners; insuavity[obs3]; uncourteousness
&c.adj[obs3].; rusticity, inurbanity[obs3]; illiberality,
incivility displacency[obs3].
disrespect &c. 929;
procacity[obs3], impudence; barbarism, barbarity;
misbehavior, brutality, blackguardism[obs3], conduct
unbecoming a gentleman, grossieret, brusquerie[obs3];
vulgarity, &c. 851.
churlishness &c. adj.;
spinosity[obs3], perversity; moroseness &c.
(sullenness) 901a. sternness &c. adj.; austerity;
moodishness[obs3], captiousness &c. 901; cynicism;
tartness &c. adj.; acrimony, acerbity, virulence,
asperity.
scowl, black looks,
frown; short answer, rebuff; hard words,
contumely; unparliamentary language, personality.
bear, bruin, brute,
blackguard, beast; unlicked cub[obs3]; frump,
crosspatch[obs3]; saucebox &c. 887[obs3]; crooked
stick; grizzly.
V. be -rude &c. adj.;
insult &c. 929; treat with discourtesy; take a
name in vain; make bold with, make free with; take
a liberty; stare out of countenance, ogle, point at,
put to the blush.
cut; turn one’s
back upon, turn on one’s heel; give the cold
shoulder;
keep at a distance, keep at arm’s length; look
cool upon, look coldly upon, look black upon; show
the door to, send away with a flea in the ear.
lose one’s temper
&c. (resentment) 900; sulk &c. 90la; frown, scowl,
glower, pout; snap, snarl, growl.
render rude &c. ad.;
brutalize, brutify[obs3].
Adj. discourteous, uncourteous[obs3];
uncourtly[obs3]; ill-bred, ill-
mannered, ill-behaved, ill-conditioned; unbred; unmannerly,
unmannered; impolite, unpolite[obs3]; unpolished,
uncivilized, ungenteel; ungentleman-like, ungentlemanly;
unladylike; blackguard; vulgar &c. 851; dedecorous[obs3];
foul-mouthed foul-spoken; abusive.
uncivil, ungracious,
unceremonious; cool; pert, forward, obtrusive,
impudent, rude, saucy, precocious.
repulsive; uncomplaisant[obs3],
unaccommodating, unneighborly,
ungallant; inaffable[obs3]; ungentle, ungainly; rough,
rugged, bluff, blunt, gruff; churlish, boorish, bearish;
brutal, brusque; stern, harsh, austere; cavalier.
taint, sour, crabbed,
sharp, short, trenchant, sarcastic, biting,
doggish, caustic, virulent, bitter, acrimonious, venomous,
contumelious; snarling &c. v.; surly, surly as a bear;
perverse; grim, sullen &c. 901a; peevish &c. (irascible)
901.
untactful, impolitic,
undiplomatic; artless &c. 703;
Adv. discourteously
&c. adj.; with discourtesy &c. n., with a bad
grace.


