UNCEREMONIOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unceremoniously mean? 

• UNCEREMONIOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb UNCEREMONIOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. in an unceremonious manner

  Familiarity information: UNCEREMONIOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNCEREMONIOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an unceremonious manner

Context example:

he was dismissed unceremoniously

Antonym:

ceremoniously (in a ceremonious manner)

Pertainym:

unceremonious (without due formalities)

 Context examples 

Being pushed unceremoniously to one side—which was precisely what I wished—he usurped my place, and proceeded to accompany himself: for he could play as well as sing. I hied me to the window-recess.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Both the foresters and the laborers had risen from their bench, and Dame Eliza and the travelling doctor had flung themselves between the two parties with soft words and soothing gestures, when the door of the Pied Merlin was flung violently open, and the attention of the company was drawn from their own quarrel to the new-comer who had burst so unceremoniously upon them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The dry-goods stores were not down among the counting-houses, banks, and wholesale warerooms, where gentlemen most do congregate, but Jo found herself in that part of the city before she did a single errand, loitering along as if waiting for someone, examining engineering instruments in one window and samples of wool in another, with most unfeminine interest, tumbling over barrels, being half-smothered by descending bales, and hustled unceremoniously by busy men who looked as if they wondered 'how the deuce she got there'.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She had been out-manoeuvred and out-run, to say nothing of her having been unceremoniously tumbled in the gravel, and her arrival was like that of a tornado—made up of offended dignity, justifiable wrath, and instinctive hatred for this marauder from the Wild.

(White Fang, by Jack London)