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
Men of their fashion were surely incapable of being unpolite?
From The Letters of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
The spectre has an excellent excuse for all this unpolite mimicry—in fact, he cannot help it, as the reader may infer from the following account, of one of his appearances on a reduced scale.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various
So pulling out one letter after another, and reading them in company, or cutting or pairing one's nails, is unpolite and rude.
From The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant by John Hamilton Moore
Very rude, indeed, madam; most excessively unpolite of Mr M——.
From Newton Forster by Frederick Marryat
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