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- noun The state or condition of being
uncourteous ;impoliteness .
Etymologies
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uncourteous + -ness
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In "society" all over the world it is the same; for everywhere men and women born and bred ladies and gentlemen value their reputation as such too highly to risk it by any rudeness or uncourteousness.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 Various
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