unpolite

Example Sentences

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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

Mr. B. cannot be unpolite, in the main; but he is cold, and a little cross, and short in his speeches to me.

From Pamela, Volume II by Richardson, Samuel

Very rude indeed, madam; most excessively unpolite of Mr M—.

From Newton Forster The Merchant Service by Marryat, Frederick

She had often observed, that the blunt method of contradicting, which some bosom friends practise in conversation, is of sovereign power to provoke; and this consequently, though unpolite, she disdained not to imitate.

From Tales and Novels — Volume 06 by Edgeworth, Maria

St. Anthony had no harder fight with the ladies he was unpolite enough to call demons, than I in resisting the temptation to take another look at that pen-and-ink love making.

From Quest of the Golden Girl, a Romance by Le Gallienne, Richard