unpolite

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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

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

If I am unpolite, madam, my sincerity will be my excuse; at least to my own heart.

From The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) by Richardson, Samuel

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

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