[f. next.] Lack of courtliness; uncourtly behavior.
1668. H. More, Div. Dial., V. xxi. (1713), 474. A great piece of roughness, rudeness and uncourtliness.
1710. Addison, Whig Exam., No. 5, ¶ 11. Notwithstanding the uncourtliness of their phrases the sense was very honest.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), I. v. 34. Our sex perhaps expect to hear a littleuncourtliness shall I call it? from the husband.