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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.

ary; different. The Egyptians were . . . the most oddly discrepant from the rest in their manner of worship. Cudworth.

In a discretive manner.

In a discriminating manner; distinctly.

The act of reclining at table according to the manner of the ancients at their meals. Sir T. Browne.

Artificial language or manner assumed for deception; false appearance; counterfeit semblance or show. That eye which glances through all disguises. D. Webster.

aste or higher sensibilities of our nature; as, an act of cruelty may excite disgust. The manner of doing is more consequence than the thing done, and upon that depends the satisfaction or disgust wherewith it is received. Locke. In a vulgar hack writer such oddities would have excited only disgust. Macaulay.…

In a dishonest manner.

In a disinterested manner; without bias or prejudice.

In a disjunctive manner; separately. Dr. H. More.

In a disloyal manner.

In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.

In a disobedient manner.

In a disorderly manner; without law or order; irregularly; confusedly. Withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly. 2 Thess. iii. 6. Savages fighting disorderly with stones. Sir W. Raleigh.

In a manner to disparage or dishonor; slightingly.

In a manner to dispose.

The state or the manner of being disposed or arranged; distribution; arrangement; order; as, the disposition of the trees in an orchard; the disposition of the several parts of an edifice.

In a dispositive manner; by natural or moral disposition. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. Do dispositively what Moses is recorded to have done literally, . . . break all the ten commandments at once. Boyle.

In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.

In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. [R.] Wiseman.