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unpolite

[uhn-puh-lahyt]
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adjective
  1. impolite.
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Origin of unpolite

First recorded in 1640–50; un-1 + polite
Related formsun·po·lite·ly, adverb
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Examples from the Web for unpolite

Historical Examples

  • Sure they'll not be so unpolite as to refuse your Excellency's kind invitation.

    The Fall of British Tyranny

    John Leacock

  • It's unpolite to contradict you, but I think that would be difficult.

  • In disgrace of his birth, and education, and knowledge, an unpolite man!

    Clarissa, Volume 5 (of 9)

    Samuel Richardson

  • You recollect that first night, when I was so unpolite and inky?

    Bleak House

    Charles Dickens

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

    Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9)

    Samuel Richardson