unpolite

Example Sentences

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These raw, rude, thoroughly unpolite shows open a window on a brand new England, from the gritty Bosnian-war drama Peacekeepers to the Lynchian small-town comic horrors of The League of Gentlemen.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the same time many are unpolite, not because they mean to be so, but because they are awkward, and perhaps know no better.

From How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success by Calhoon, Major A.R.

This is a position which does no one any harm, so it is absurd that it should be considered unpolite.

From Lalage's Lovers by Birmingham, George A.

The debt to Mr. Reid is £25; and here is a certain paper which gives me the power to do an unpolite thing.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII by Wilson, John Mackay

To be sure, he is far from being a polite man: yet is not directly and characteristically, as I may say, unpolite.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 by Richardson, Samuel