Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Not polite; discourteous.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Unpolished; unfinished.
- Unpolished in manner; not polite; ill-mannered; rude; uncivil.
Wiktionary
- adj. Not polite; not of polished manners; wanting in good manners.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not polite; not of polished manners; wanting in good manners; discourteous; uncivil; rude.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. not polite
Etymologies
- Latin impolītus, unpolished, inelegant : in-, not; see in-1 + polītus, past participle of polīre, to polish; see polish.
Examples
“Blaming snow for being ignorant and careless and impolite, is like blaming a dog for barking.”
“Hara kiri is an impolite way of saying the Japanese word “seppuku” which means, literally, “belly splitting.””
“What others might term impolite was merely Ken's shorthand.”
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“Last week, a lawyer from Chile wrote me congratulating me for my journalistic work and informing me about the presence of so many Israeli soldiers which he encountered while in the south, whom he describes as impolite and rude.”
“Yeah, the adverb problem has bitten me in impolite places a hundred times and they’re usually the first to go when the story gets passed around my friends.”
“Gretchen, though she rejects Faust's first advances curtly enough to be called impolite, nevertheless ardently returns Faust's kiss on her first meeting with him in the garden, and already at the second”
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“Will this move them to improve behavior the poll characterized as impolite, prone to loud carping and inattentive to local customs?”
“As somebody commented above this it was not only "impolite" for google to do that update.”
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“In terms of the historical record, Royall's personality and hilarious, though often caustic and "impolite" attacks on religious figures--both right and left, from Protestant fanatics of the Jacksonian era like Ezra Stiles Ely to New England abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher and his sister Harriet Beecher Stowe--as well as the corrupt political stalwarts of all persuasions, have unfairly dominated and often biased her portrayal in many histories.”
“In terms of the historical record, Royall's personality and hilarious, though often caustic and "impolite" attacks on religious figures -- both right and left, from Protestant fanatics of the Jacksonian era like Ezra Stiles Ely to New England abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher and his sister Harriet Beecher Stowe -- as well as the corrupt political stalwarts of all persuasions, have unfairly dominated and often biased her portrayal in many histories.”
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afredricks All cultures have rules for polite and impolite behavior. May 20, 2009