impoliteness

Example Sentences

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"Such a step cannot be seen as anything other than a sign of diplomatic impoliteness and disrespect for our request," the ministry said.

From Reuters • Feb. 11, 2022

And as Rea’s work suggests, people could well end up tolerating a little impoliteness if it serves a good cause.

From Slate • Aug. 23, 2021

We don’t hear the impoliteness in this question on a job interview, because we’ve been trained to think it’s normal for recruiters and hiring managers to ask job-seekers very personal things.

From Forbes • Sep. 25, 2014

Photograph: Magdalena Rehova/Alamy In 2007, I began a PhD thesis entitled: "Trolling in computer-mediated communication: impoliteness, deception, and manipulation online."

From The Guardian • Jul. 1, 2013

Fortunately these were in Italian, and so the obvious boredom of the foreign guests did not need to be construed as impoliteness.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson