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• s  without ceremony or formality
  an unceremonious speech
• s  without due formalities
  unceremonious dismissal from office

• Their work changed the way war was perceived, for it showed in uncompromising detail the horrors of death in war and the unceremonious expediencies of battlefield last rites.
• In a quiet, unceremonious business session atop the Petersberg, overlooking the new German capital at Bonn (pop.
• Acceptance by the Metropolitan Museum, profuse with classic pottery, has dignified a career as unceremonious and sincere as that of a medieval illuminator.

• unceremonial

News & Articles

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• Conan: How social media saved me
  Conan O’Brien said he was rescued by social media after his unceremonious firing from NBC’s “Tonight Show.” He explained at a Cannes Lions...
  June 20, 2013 - New York Post
• Kurt Busch: A NASCAR Driver Who Has Earned His Second Chance
  By now, we are all familiar with the trials and tribulations of Kurt Busch. He was the Sprint Cup Series Champion in 2004, and then there was his long-running feud with Jimmy Spencer. He notched at least one win every season from 2002 until 2011, and then there was his unceremonious parting with Penske Racing at the end of the 2011 season. It is safe to say that Busch has seen all of the highs ...
  June 18, 2013 - Bleacher Report

Quotes

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• Jay Mariotti in Wall Street Journal
  I make no apologies in calling it cheap, unceremonious and suspicion-marred, a dubious moment that someday may be affixed with an *,writes Jay Mariotti in the Chicago Sun-Times, adding that when he finally was done celebrating with these...
• Solomon Volkov in International Herald Tribune
  The unceremonious canning of Solzhenitsyn's program, which pleased some,Volkov writes, "was seen as a sad symbol of the era by others."
• Adam Zamoyski in Telegraph.co.uk
  Then, as in the future, Poland's allies mourned but did little to prevent what Zamoyski describes as "the unceremonious liquidation of one of the states of Europe".