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How to use discourtesy in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word discourtesy? Here are some examples.

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We have known each other long enough that you will forgive me this discourtesy.
Driving to work this morning I saw several incidences of bad driving and plain old discourtesy on the road.
And as society is growing more self-obsessed, so discourtesy is increasing.
There has been no hint of discourtesy, a trait which seems alien to her character.
These misconceptions have come not from people whose intentions include malice or discourtesy but from friends who are simply curious.
If invited to someone's house for dinner, lateness is seen as a discourtesy.
The truly great debaters and wordsmiths never resort to cheap discourtesy as a way to make a point and their arguments were stronger for it.
I stared back at him unabashedly, too surprised to think that to do so was a gross discourtesy to someone of his rank.
This is not the only example of discourtesy that I have noticed while taking transit.
And if the company fails to honour the promise of its timetable, that is a discourtesy in itself.
When the feasts start the guests are expected not to stand up during the feasting because this is considered a discourtesy to the host.
The host of the dinner party sent my wife a wonderful bouquet of flowers and a card apologising for the grave discourtesy of a fellow guest.
He knows that was not meant as a discourtesy, it was for democratic reasons upstairs.
Even his decision to attend the Pope's funeral when it clashed with the wedding of his future sovereign has been interpreted by some as a discourtesy.
For my discourtesy, I offer you three books of your choosing.
Disregard of speed limits, failure to recognise hazardous weather and traffic conditions, lack of forward observations and widespread discourtesy are but a few examples.
He is extremely embarrassed by the incident and regrets any discourtesy.
I have had enough of this discourtesy and cavalier behaviour.
Billy snarked, with a little too much discourtesy to be entirely joking.
You just might get thrown into the dungeons for your discourtesy.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It was a climax of discourtesy whose impression I must at all costs efface.
At first this sort of thing seems to us to spring from laziness or from discourtesy.
Courtesy, they say, is the mark of a great man, discourtesy of a little one.
There's headcheese besides but that's made of a pig's head and is only a cheese by discourtesy.
I write without her knowledge, and I hope that you will not associate her with my discourtesy.
Over-much civility is sometimes no better than over-much discourtesy, for, as the saying is, one can choke a guest with curds.
Her quick temper instantly resented the discourtesy of which she had been made the object.
It is the acme of discourtesy to keep any one waiting in this manner.
It was plain enough to discern that the old fellows dreaded some such discourtesy at my hands.
Ross found it hard to keep down his temper at this discourtesy.
It is not to do you a discourtesy, but my tools are my bread.
Afterwards he amended his discourtesy, and I forgot the offence.
But my steward has expounded to you the cause of my seeming discourtesy.
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