'discourteous' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it as an adjective to describe someone who is not polite or considerate in the way they act or speak. Example: The discourteous waiter ignored us for the entire meal.
Successive governments have tried to solve the north's problems through blind, naïve attempts at modernisation, informed by the churlish and discourteous perception of the north as an economic backwater.
Mr Kingman's performance was described by committee members as "dozy" and "discourteous".
Laws in America are voted on by the majority and the majority believe that they need legal protection from a truly dangerous activity practised by a discourteous and irresponsible minority.
So many places change their names, and so often.They have every right to do so, of course, and it seems discourteous not to use their new names if they expressly ask you to.
It is, I'm afraid, discourteous and incompetent and must not happen again".
Just over a week ago, the Speaker accused the Business Secretary and rising star Sajid Javid of being "discourteous and incompetent".
For quite aside from being a fundamentally discourteous display, the debacle demonstrated the sheer self-defeating stupidity of today's students, too ignorant to appreciate the importance of language in undermining an argument.
The pair sent each other a series of angry emails, the tone of which were described at the tribunal as "discourteous and hostile".
Bland may have been discourteous, but cops, after all, are supposed to be trained professionals.
John Bercow has told a Conservative minister off for taking too long to answer a question in the House of Commons and took the extraordinary step of telling him he had behaved in a "discourteous and incompetent" way.
It's rare to hear anything but complaints about mail being lost or carriers being discourteous, but the mail is one of those things to which we give distorted attention.
