Roget's Thesaurus

#895. Discourtesy

Nouns

discourtesy; ill breeding; ill manners, bad manners, ungainly manners; insuavity; uncourteousness, etc. adj.; rusticity, inurbanity; illiberality, incivility displacency. disrespect etc. 929; procacity, impudence; barbarism, barbarity; misbehavior, brutality, blackguardism, conduct unbecoming a gentleman, grossierete, brusquerie; vulgarity, etc. 851. churlishness etc. adj.; spinosity, perversity; moroseness etc. (sullenness) 901a. sternness etc. adj.; austerity; moodishness, captiousness etc. 901; cynicism; tartness etc. 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; frump, crosspatch; saucebox etc. 887; crooked stick; grizzly.

Verbs

be rude etc. adj.; insult etc. 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 etc. (resentment) 900; sulk etc. 901a; frown, scowl, glower, pout; snap, snarl, growl. render rude etc. adj.; brutalize, brutify.

Adjectives

discourteous, uncourteous; uncourtly; ill-bred, ill-mannered, ill-behaved, ill-conditioned; unbred; unmannerly, unmannered; impolite, unpolite; unpolished, uncivilized, ungenteel; ungentleman-like, ungentlemanly; unladylike; blackguard; vulgar etc. 851; dedecorous; foul-mouthed, foul-spoken; abusive. uncivil, ungracious, unceremonious; cool; pert, forward, obtrusive, impudent, rude, saucy, precocious. repulsive; uncomplaisant, unaccommodating, unneighborly, ungallant; inaffable; 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 etc. v.; surly, surly as a bear; perverse; grim, sullen etc. 901a; peevish etc. (irascible) 901. untactful, impolitic, undiplomatic; artless etc. 703;

Adverbs

discourteously etc. adj.; with discourtesy etc. n., with a bad grace.