unpolite
Americanadjective
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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
O Dr. Bartlett, I must have been thought an unpolite husband, had she been my wife!
From The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) by Richardson, Samuel
Very rude, indeed, madam; most excessively unpolite of Mr M——.
From Newton Forster by Marryat, Frederick
When Humble saw what we had done he acted real unpolite.
From The Orphan by Mulford, Clarence E.
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
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