Word Meanings - DISCOURTESY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation of disrespect; incivility. Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy. Herbert.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISCOURTESY)
- Arrogance
- Haughtiness
- contemptuousness
- overbearingness
- hauteur
- browbeating
- loftiness
- self-conceit
- stateliness
- vainglory
- insolence
- self-importance
- assumption
- discourtesy
- Incivility
- Discourtesy
- illbreeding
- ill-manners
- uncourteousness
Related words: (words related to DISCOURTESY)
- SELF-CONCEIT
Conceit of one's self; an overweening opinion of one's powers or endowments. Syn. -- See Egotism. - BROWBEATING
The act of bearing down, abashing, or disconcerting, with stern looks, suspercilious manners, or confident assertions. The imperious browbeating and scorn of great men. L'Estrange. - LOFTINESS
The state or quality of being lofty. - INCIVILITY
1. The quality or state of being uncivil; want of courtesy; rudeness of manner; impoliteness. Shak. Tillotson. 2. Any act of rudeness or ill breeding. Uncomely jests, loud talking and jeering, which, in civil account, are called indecencies and - SELF-CONCEITED
Having an overweening opinion of one's own powers, attainments; vain; conceited. -- Self`-con*ceit"ed*ness, n. - VAINGLORY
Excessive vanity excited by one's own performances; empty pride; undue elation of mind; vain show; boastfulness. He had nothing of vainglory. Bacon. The man's undone forever; for if Hector break not his neck i' the combat, he'll break't himself - DISCOURTESY
Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation of disrespect; incivility. Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy. Herbert. - BROWBEAT
To depress or bear down with haughty, stern looks, or with arrogant speech and dogmatic assertions; to abash or disconcert by impudent or abusive words or looks; to bully; as, to browbeat witnesses. My grandfather was not a man to be browbeaten. - HAUTEUR
Haughty manner or spirit; haughtiness; pride; arrogance. - ASSUMPTION
The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism. 5. The taking of a person up into heaven. Hence: (Rom. Cath. & Greek Churches) (more info) 1. The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting. The - HAUGHTINESS
The quality of being haughty; disdain; arrogance. Syn. -- Arrogance; disdain; contemptuousness; superciliousness; loftiness. -- Haughtiness, Arrogance, Disdain. Haughtiness denotes the expression of conscious and proud superiority; arrogance is - STATELINESS
The quality or state of being stately. For stateliness and majesty, what is comparable to a horse Dr. H. More. - ARROGANCE
The act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue - INSOLENCE
1. The quality of being unusual or novel. Spenser. 2. The quality of being insolent; pride or haughtiness manifested in contemptuous and overbearing treatment of others; arrogant contempt; brutal imprudence. Flown with insolence and wine. Milton. - SELF-IMPORTANCE
An exaggerated estimate of one's own importance or merit, esp. as manifested by the conduct or manners; self-conceit. - CONTEMPTUOUSNESS
Disposition to or manifestion of contempt; insolence; haughtiness.