unpolite

American  

[uhn-puh-lahyt] / ˌʌn pəˈlaɪt /

adjective

1. impolite.

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Other Word Forms

• unpolitely
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of unpolite

First recorded in 1640–50; un- ¹ + polite

Example Sentences

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unpolite

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

"I won't be unpolite enough to mention that a cat may look at a king," said the old man.

From A Little Bush Maid by Mary Grant Bruce

He is unpolite, cruel, insolent, unwise, a trifler in his own happiness.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 by Samuel Richardson

Men of their fashion were surely incapable of being unpolite?

From The Letters of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

Her Husband could never prevail upon her to dress as became a Person of her Rank, nor to alter any thing in her Furniture, tho' ever so unpolite.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by Karl Ludwig von P?llnitz