discourteously

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for discourteously
Adverb
  • My mother was kind of rudely serving major MILF tea, right?
    Vincent Perella, IndieWire, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Especially in an instance at the start of the video, where it was pushed back rudely.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Stanford University water polo coach Brian Flacks treated Cardinal players disrespectfully, but a former university general counsel attorney found that the treatment did not meet Stanford’s standard of retaliation, according to multiple documents obtained by the Southern California News Group.
    Scott M. Reid, Oc Register, 12 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Bella, in her podcast conversation with Trinny Woodall, recalled that once, at a village post office, a shop assistant disdainfully called her a hippie.
    Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • As if the question arose, thought Leonora scornfully.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Set Rules For Micro-Interventions Of course, even a strategy like this, with ample scientific support, can backfire if it’s implemented thoughtlessly.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • Court filings from the former players allege how Lorch methodically groomed and abused children from some of the nation’s poorest communities, cunningly and cruelly preying on their desperation and love of the city game, on an almost industrial scale.
    Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Maybe this time their rewards can be one of the top three picks in the draft, after the 2025 lottery cruelly landed in favor of much stronger West teams (Dallas, San Antonio) with the top two picks.
    John Hollinger, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
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“Discourteously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/discourteously. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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