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

Mr. B. cannot be unpolite, in the main; but he is cold, and a little cross, and short in his speeches to me.

From Pamela, Volume II by Richardson, Samuel

She had often observed, that the blunt method of contradicting, which some bosom friends practise in conversation, is of sovereign power to provoke; and this consequently, though unpolite, she disdained not to imitate.

From Tales and Novels — Volume 06 by Edgeworth, Maria

These disputes, it has been affirmed, sometimes happen at a consultation of regular physicians, and a patient has been so unpolite as to die before they could determine on the name of his disorder.

From The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency by Trusler, John

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.