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impoliteness

  • a word derived from impolite.
    impolite
    adjective
    not polite or courteous; discourteous; rude.

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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 if that’s true, robot impoliteness might be the key to preserving human impoliteness—which is to say, the human way of doing things.

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

These people sending abusive, obscene, anonymous messages are simply demonstrating that they will not tolerate impoliteness in any form.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 30, 2011

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