Discourtesy: alternatives and connections

The state of being abrupt or broken; craggedness; ruggedness; steepness.

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To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to misuse; to put to a bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse inherited gold; to ma…

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To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face.

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An indignity offered to God in words, writing, or signs; impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or used in reference to, God; speaking evi…

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Quality of being brusque; roughness joined with promptness; bluntness.

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The side of the face below the eye.

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The act of contemning or despising; the feeling with which one regards that which is esteemed mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.

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Rudeness compounded of haughtiness and contempt; scornful insolence; despiteful treatment; disdain; contemptuousness in act or speech; disgrace.

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The hard external coat or covering of anything; the hard exterior surface or outer shell; an incrustation; as, a crust of snow.

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The quality of bing curt.

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The act of lessening, or seeking to lessen, price, value, or reputation.

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The act of deriding, or the state of being derided; mockery; scornful or contemptuous treatment which holds one up to ridicule.

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The act of derogating, partly repealing, or lessening in value; disparagement; detraction; depreciation; -- followed by of, from, or to.

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Matching any one in marriage under his or her degree; injurious union with something of inferior excellence; a lowering in rank or estimation.

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Want of respect or reverence; disesteem; incivility; discourtesy.

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The state of being fresh.

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The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that…

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The condition or quality of being impertnent; absence of pertinence, or of adaptedness; irrelevance; unfitness.

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The quality of being impudent; assurance, accompanied with a disregard of the presence or opinions of others; shamelessness; forwardness; want of mod…

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The quality or state of being uncivil; want of courtesy; rudeness of manner; impoliteness.

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The quality of being indelicate; want of delicacy, or of a nice sense of, or regard for, purity, propriety, or refinement in manners, language, etc.;…

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The quality of being unusual or novel.

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The act of leaping on; onset; attack.

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The act of presuming, or believing upon probable evidence; the act of assuming or taking for granted; belief upon incomplete proof.

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Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance.

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The act of reviling; also, contemptuous language; reproach; abuse.

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An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter.

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Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object.

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The quality or state of being short; want of reach or extension; brevity; deficiency; as, the shortness of a journey; the shortness of the days in wi…

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Sleight.

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The act of vilifying or defaming; abuse.

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Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the beh…

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(psychology) the aggregate of the responses or reactions or movements made by an organism in any situation

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The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.

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Contained within limits; hence, having the desires limited by that which one has; not disposed to repine or grumble; satisfied; contented; at rest.

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of Doing

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Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion.

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Any notice, word, or communication, written or verbal, sent from one person to another.

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That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in whic…

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Want of respect or reverence; disesteem; incivility; discourtesy.

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Want of respect or reverence; disesteem; incivility; discourtesy.

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Want of respect or reverence; disesteem; incivility; discourtesy.

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See Offense.

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Alt. of Offence

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Politeness; civility; urbanity; courtliness.

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Politeness; civility; urbanity; courtliness.

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