Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.

Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.
complacent; obsequious &c. 886.
     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.

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