Antonyms for etiquette

Grammar : Noun

Spell : et-i-kit, -ket

Phonetic Transcription : ˈɛt ɪ kɪt, -ˌkɛt

Definition of etiquette

Origin : 1750, from French étiquette "prescribed behavior," from Old French estiquette "label, ticket" (see ticket).
The sense development in French perhaps is from small cards written or printed with instructions for how to behave properly at court (cf. Italian etichetta, Spanish etiqueta), and/or from behavior instructions written on a soldier's billet for lodgings (the main sense of the Old French word).

noun manners, politeness

Example sentences :

You know better than any one else the etiquette of the Spanish Court.
Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt

What do you think, eh, of the etiquette which compels him to such loneliness?
Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola

For that breach of etiquette I had to humiliate you that Royal dignity might be preserved.
Extract from : « City of Endless Night » by Milo Hastings

When the decent distance of etiquette separated us we resumed our paddles.
Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White

A battle should be like a stately minuet, with no loss of dignity or of etiquette.'
Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle

Perfect silence at Reisenburg, then, was etiquette and the fashion.
Extract from : « Vivian Grey » by Earl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli

But the etiquette of the bush does not demand much in coats.
Extract from : « Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) » by William Delisle Hay

All this etiquette is a dodge for keeping the business in the hands of the older men.
Extract from : « The Stark Munro Letters » by J. Stark Munro

And if he has the appetite, he will have the soup, etiquette or no etiquette.
Extract from : « Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 4, January 26, 1884 » by Various

They have that native pride that demands a certain amount of etiquette and deference.
Extract from : « Lord Kilgobbin » by Charles Lever

Synonyms for etiquette

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