Word Meanings - INURBANITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Want of urbanity or courtesy; unpolished manners or deportment; inurbaneness; rudeness. Bp. Hall.

URBANITY
1. The quality or state of being urbane; civility or courtesy of manners; politeness; refinement. The marquis did the honors of his house with the urbanity of his country. W. Irving. 2. Polite wit; facetiousness. Dryden. Raillery in the sauce
DEPORTMENT
Manner of deporting or demeaning one's self; manner of acting; conduct; carrige; especially, manner of acting with respect to the courtesies and duties of life; behavior; demeanor; bearing. The gravity of his deportment carried him safe through
UNPOLISH
To deprive of polish; to make impolite.
COURTESY
corteisie, courtesie, OF. curteisie, cortoisie, OF. curteisie, 1. Politeness; civility; urbanity; courtliness. And trust thy honest-offered courtesy, With oft is sooner found in lowly sheds, With smoky rafters, than in tapestry walls And courts
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.
CRUDENESS
A crude, undigested, or unprepared state; rawness; unripeness; immatureness; unfitness for a destined use or purpose; as, the crudeness of iron ore; crudeness of theories or plans.
INURBANITY
Want of urbanity or courtesy; unpolished manners or deportment; inurbaneness; rudeness. Bp. Hall.