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from The Century Dictionary.
- Impolitely.
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Yes | No | Report from fng wrote 1 day 15 hours ago and mr Dakotaman, my father has quite unpolitely vetoed the idea of keeping powder in his house (our garage is unheated) so I believe I must keep looking ... sigh
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Yes | No | Report from fng wrote 1 day 15 hours ago and mr Dakotaman, my father has quite unpolitely vetoed the idea of keeping powder in his house (our garage is unheated) so I believe I must keep looking ... sigh
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Rather conscious and confused, Arthur asked his pardon, if he had stared at him unpolitely.
Little Dorrit 2007
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But how could a creature who (treating herself unpolitely) gave a man an opportunity to run away with her, expect to be treated by that man with a very high degree of politeness?
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Nature has given you nails, which men unpolitely call claws; they are admirably constructed, and well jointed in a membrane, which is extended or drawn up like the fingers of a glove; and at pleasure it becomes a terrific claw, or a paw of velvet.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 328, August 23, 1828 Various
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The family of Madam de Larnage might not be pleased with me, and would, perhaps, treat me unpolitely; her daughter too made me uneasy, for, spite of myself, I thought more of her than was necessary.
The Confessions of J J Rousseau Rousseau, Jean Jacques 1896
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'Liza just snatched the bottle away, very unpolitely, when I only told her that I had been helping her because she was so busy, and Zaidee wanted her legs rubbed.
Cricket at the Seashore Elizabeth Weston Timlow 1896
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Tournament in that city when the train unpolitely went on, leaving him behind, Bird was not the only consumer nor responsible for the food famine, which the Field and the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic say prevailed afterwards for the whole of the inhabitants of the place (fifty souls) including the old lady ill in bed, and her attendant who deserted her for the afternoon partook thereof.
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The exhortation finds a response in every heart, and may seem too familiar and trite to bear dwelling on, but we may be allowed to touch lightly on one or two of the plain reasons which enforce it on every man who is not what Proverbs very unpolitely calls 'a fool. '
Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes Alexander Maclaren 1868
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And how many politicians will strain conscience to-day, because they are afraid of what Luke here unpolitely calls 'the multitude,' or as we might render it, 'the mob,' but which we now fit with a much more respectful appellation!
Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts Alexander Maclaren 1868
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